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Page 83
... Adam Bede , Eliot articulates this moral fully : " Whenever Adam was strongly convinced of any proposition , it took the form of a principle in his mind . ... Perhaps here lay the secret of the hardness he had accused himself of : he ...
... Adam Bede , Eliot articulates this moral fully : " Whenever Adam was strongly convinced of any proposition , it took the form of a principle in his mind . ... Perhaps here lay the secret of the hardness he had accused himself of : he ...
Page 111
... Adam Bede , that “ the sign is so slight , it is scarcely perceptible to the eye or ear . " He speaks here of love's signs and excuses both Dorothea and Adam for misreading those signs of passion which yield such immeasurable ...
... Adam Bede , that “ the sign is so slight , it is scarcely perceptible to the eye or ear . " He speaks here of love's signs and excuses both Dorothea and Adam for misreading those signs of passion which yield such immeasurable ...
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... Adam Bede , " " she maintains that Adam " is not my father any more than Dinah is my aunt " and that “ not a single portrait " exists in Adam Bede . The germ for that novel combines " recollections " of Eliot's Aunt Samuel with " points ...
... Adam Bede , " " she maintains that Adam " is not my father any more than Dinah is my aunt " and that “ not a single portrait " exists in Adam Bede . The germ for that novel combines " recollections " of Eliot's Aunt Samuel with " points ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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