...interested in it but myself (since Wordsworth is dead) if Mr Lewes had not been strongly arrested by it. But I hope you will not find it at all a sad story, as a whole, since it sets—or is intended to set —in a strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural human relations....

...begins with Silas Marner, which grew from ' the merest millet-seed of thought.' Of this she says : ' It sets — or is intended to set — in a ' strong...remedial influences of pure, ' natural human relations.' And in Silas Marner the balance between artistic creation and philosophic construction is most evenly...

...in it but myself (since Wordsworth is dead) — if Mr. Lewes had not been strongly arrested by it. But I hope you will not find it at all a sad story,...strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural relations. The Nemesis is a very mild one. I have felt all through as if the story would have lent...

...is dead) — if Mr. Lewes had not been strongly arrested by it. But I hope you will not find it i;t all a sad story, as a whole, since it sets — or...strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural relations. The Nemesis is a very mild one. I have felt all through as if the story would have lent...

...refined picture of rural life there is a dominant ethical motive which she herself describes as its aim " to set in a strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural, human relations. " This aim is perfectly worked out ; it is a right and healthy conception, not too subtle, not too...

...picture of rural life there is a dominant ethical motive which she herself describes as its aim, " to set in a strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural, human relations." This aim is perfectly worked out : it is a right and healthy conception, not too subtle, not too common...

...and the chief motive of the book, are mentioned in a letter to Mr. Blackwopd on February 24, 1861 : " I hope you will not find it at all a sad story, as...set — in a strong light the remedial influences of ifil ral, human relations. The Nemesis is a very mild one. I have felt all through as if the story...

...perfection. Yet it would lose much even of * Of Silas Marner George Eliot wrote to John Blackwood, "It sets — or is intended to set — in a strong...remedial influences of pure, natural human relations." its artistic value and interest if the story with which it is complicated were not also of a sort to...

...formative influence from her later novels, beginning with Silas Marner. Writing of that book, she said: "It sets — or is intended to set — in a strong...remedial influences of pure, natural human relations." She ignored the remedial influence of the supernatural order. For her there was no world of grace....

...man, softened by the love of an affectionate child. Miss Evans called it, in her preface, an attempt "to set, in a strong light, the remedial influences of pure, natural, human relations." Adam Bede, in some respects a better developed work, is the least depressing of Miss Evans1 writings....