I share with you this sense of oppressive narrowness; but it is necessary that we should feel it, if we care to understand how it acted on the lives of Tom and Maggie — how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency... Novels [of George Eliot] - Page 163by George Eliot - 1870Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1860 - 418 pages
...lives of Tom and Maggie — how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental...shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
| George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 476 pages
...their hearts. The suffer- i ing, whether of martyr or victim, which belongs to every his-1 torical advance of mankind, is represented in this way in...town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths; and we need net shrink from this comparison of small things with great; for does not science tell us that its highest... | |
| American periodicals - 1861 - 606 pages
...level of the generation before them, to which they bave been nevertheless tied by the strongest fibers of their hearts. The suffering, whether of martyr...in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths." It would seem by this, that we are to regard The Mill on the Plots as written in the spirit of tragedy.... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...lives of Tom and Maggie — how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental...shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...suffering, whether of martyr or victim, which belongs to every historical advance of mankind, is represented in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths...shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...suffering, whether of martyr or victim, which belongs to every historical advance of mankind, is represented in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths...shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
| Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 310 pages
...lives of Tom and Maggie— how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental...shrink from this comparison of small things with great; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
| George Eliot - 1877 - 494 pages
...lives of Tom and Maggie — how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental...town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths ; and we need nci shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its... | |
| George Eliot - 1878 - 420 pages
...lives of Tom and Maggie — how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental....shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...lives of Tom and Maggie — how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental...shrink from this comparison of small things with great ; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which... | |
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