George Eliot: A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 59
Page 5
... woman , and a notable house- wife . She is described in the Mrs. Hackit of " Amos Barton , " whose industry , sharp tongue , epigrammatic speech and marked character were taken from life . Something of Mrs. Poyser also entered into her ...
... woman , and a notable house- wife . She is described in the Mrs. Hackit of " Amos Barton , " whose industry , sharp tongue , epigrammatic speech and marked character were taken from life . Something of Mrs. Poyser also entered into her ...
Page 12
... woman - about sixty- and , I believe , had for a good many years given up preaching . A tiny little woman , with bright , small , dark eyes , and hair that had been black , I imagine , but was now gray - a pretty woman in her youth ...
... woman - about sixty- and , I believe , had for a good many years given up preaching . A tiny little woman , with bright , small , dark eyes , and hair that had been black , I imagine , but was now gray - a pretty woman in her youth ...
Page 17
... woman's voice was heard to utter what they were quite sure had been well matured before the lips opened . Few , if any , could feel themselves her superior in gen- eral intelligence ; and it was amusing one day to see the amazement of a ...
... woman's voice was heard to utter what they were quite sure had been well matured before the lips opened . Few , if any , could feel themselves her superior in gen- eral intelligence ; and it was amusing one day to see the amazement of a ...
Page 19
... woman of large intelligence , and of a mind freely open to new theories . She wrote a Physiology for Schools and a school - book on Duties to Animals , which have been well received by the public and used as text books in the schools of ...
... woman of large intelligence , and of a mind freely open to new theories . She wrote a Physiology for Schools and a school - book on Duties to Animals , which have been well received by the public and used as text books in the schools of ...
Page 30
... woman's place in literature , a defence of woman's right to occupy that field she can best culti- vate , with a clear and just criticism of several of the most prominent among lady novelists . She was quite full in her treatment of Jane ...
... woman's place in literature , a defence of woman's right to occupy that field she can best culti- vate , with a clear and just criticism of several of the most prominent among lady novelists . She was quite full in her treatment of Jane ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accepted Adam Bede altruism artistic beauty believe better Blackwood Blackwood's Magazine character Charlotte Brontë Christianity Comte conception criticism Daniel Deronda deeds delight Dinah Morris doctrine Don Silva effect elements emotions ence essays ethical evolution philosophy experience expression faith Fedalma feeling Felix Holt Floss friends genius George Eliot George Sand give heart human ideal ideas imagination impulse individual influence insight inspiration intellectual interest Lewes literary literature lives Magazine Maggie man's Marian Evans memories method Middlemarch mind moral motives nature ness never noble novelist novels pain passion philosophy poem poet poetic poetry present prose purpose race reader realistic regard religion religious renunciation result Romola Savonarola says scenes Scenes of Clerical sentiment Silas Marner social sorrow soul Spanish Gypsy spiritual story sympathy teaching tender theory things thought tion tradition true truth Westminster Review woman women words writing
Popular passages
Page 223 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Page 388 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
Page 191 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 124 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Page 225 - May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 389 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance but itself; no beauty, nor good nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 311 - We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good.
Page 393 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Page 251 - Nay, never falter : no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good : 'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air. The greatest gift the hero leaves his race Is to have been a hero.
Page 321 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow jshe milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.