George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals, arranged and ed. by J. W. Cross, Հատոր 31885 |
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Էջ 282 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Էջ 385 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees : Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business : these are the degrees By which true sway doth mount ; this is the stalk True power doth grow on ; and her rights are these.
Էջ 416 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?
Էջ 135 - I don't see how I can leave anything out, because I hope there is nothing that will be seen to be irrelevant to my design, which is to show the gradual action of ordinary causes rather than exceptional...
Էջ 84 - For years of my youth I dwelt in dreams of a pantheistic sort, falsely supposing that I was enlarging my sympathy. But I have travelled far away from that time.
Էջ 394 - ... our long silence has never broken the affection for you which began when we were little ones. My Husband too was much pleased to read your letter. I have known his family for nine years, and they have received me amongst them very lovingly.
Էջ 251 - I think we must not take every great physicist — or other " ist " — for an apostle, but be ready to suspect him of some crudity concerning relations that lie outside his special studies, if his exposition strands us on results that seem to stultify the most ardent, massive experience of mankind, and hem up the best part of our feelings in stagnation.
Էջ 392 - I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty of the Grande Chartreuse. It was that the Pater had not seen it. I would still give up my own life willingly if he could have the happiness instead of me.
Էջ 45 - ... rebellion : Zarca, the struggle for a great end, rendered vain by the surrounding conditions of life. " Now what is the fact about our individual lots? A woman, say, finds herself on the earth with an inherited organization : she may be lame, she may inherit a disease, or what is tantamount to a disease : she may be a negress, or have other marks of race repulsive in the community where she is born, &c., &c.
Էջ 245 - ... life is manifested, and which seem to present themselves to you as a hideous fatalism, which ought logically to petrify your volition, — have they, in fact, any such influence on your ordinary course of action in the primary affairs of your existence as a human, social, domestic creature ? And if they don't hinder you from taking measures for a bath, without which you know that you cannot secure the delicate cleanliness which is your second nature, why should they hinder you from a line of...