Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 22
Page 86
... looked upon life as a " tangled wilderness " in which every one had to find a way for himself . Like Kirkegaard , she believes that it is only when we are faced with the uncertainties of life that we appropriate to ourselves a decision ...
... looked upon life as a " tangled wilderness " in which every one had to find a way for himself . Like Kirkegaard , she believes that it is only when we are faced with the uncertainties of life that we appropriate to ourselves a decision ...
Page 123
... looked at a national religion by daylight and saw it in 41 relation to other things . " As a man of the world he showed " mischievous practi- cableness " in all affairs . As the uncle of Gwendolen his efforts are directed in helping his ...
... looked at a national religion by daylight and saw it in 41 relation to other things . " As a man of the world he showed " mischievous practi- cableness " in all affairs . As the uncle of Gwendolen his efforts are directed in helping his ...
Page 144
... looked upon his own self - respect as the highest tribunal . Now he shrinks from self - accusation , and he actually begins to pity himself . All his energy is con- centrated in devising subterfuges to put his conscience at ease . Eliot ...
... looked upon his own self - respect as the highest tribunal . Now he shrinks from self - accusation , and he actually begins to pity himself . All his energy is con- centrated in devising subterfuges to put his conscience at ease . Eliot ...
Common terms and phrases
action Adam Bede admiration Amos Barton Arthur artist Auguste Comte become belief Book VII Bray's called Chapter character Charles Bray Charles Lee Lewes Christianity Church churchmen clerical Comte concept Coventry criticism Daniel Deronda deeds divine doctrines dogma egoism Eliot presents Eliot's ethics emotions essay Evangelical evil experience F. R. Leavis fact faith Farebrother feelings Felix Holt felt Feuerbach fiction finds Floss George Eliot Gilfil's Gwendolen Haight heart Hennell's Hetty Hetty's human nature ideas influence intellectual Janet's Repentance Jesus letter Lewes lives London looked Maggie man's mankind Mary Ann Middlemarch Mill mind miracles Miss Evans moral never novelist one's pantheism parishioners passionate philosophy poem poetry position preacher religion religious Romola Sara Sophia Hennell sense sermons Silas Marner social soul Spinoza spirit story Strauss struggle suffering suggests sympathy theology things thought Transome truth Tryan Westminster Review William Wilberforce writes wrote to Sara young