 Macbeth's rhetoric about the impossibility of being many opposite things in the same moment, referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill...  The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot - Էջ 36Nancy Henry - 2008 - 129 էջՄասամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 434 էջ
...moment, referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent,...thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. CHAPTER V "Her wit Values itself so highly, that to her All matter else seems weak." — Much Ado about... | |
 | Jane Wood - 2001 - 244 էջ
...Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, 1 vols. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1855), i. pp. 579-608. 'the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous...thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance', but contraries of action cannot be so accommodated for 'we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment'... | |
 | George Eliot - 2002 - 130 էջ
...the retarding friction of his course towards final companionship with the immortals. Impulse —MM We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent,...thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. Inspiration —DD People who do anything finely always inspirit me to try. I don't mean that they make... | |
 | Bernard J. Paris - 2003 - 240 էջ
...moment, referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent,...thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. The passage begins with a description of Gwendolen as a determinedly single-minded person who is not... | |
 | Stefanie Markovits - 2006 - 268 էջ
...necessities of action and not the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment;...wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outward and murderous thought and the backward stroke of repentance" (DD 33). "Action is transitory,"... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 460 էջ
...moment, referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent;...kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp backward... | |
 | 1876 - 862 էջ
...once referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent,...thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance." Or again, in the analysis of the vice of egoism : — " An imaginary envy, the idea that others feel... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1876 - 986 էջ
...the subtler possibilities of feeling. We can not speak a loyal word and be meanly silent ; we can not kill and not kill, in the same moment ; but a moment...thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. CHAPTER V. "Her wit V«lnee itself §o highly, that to her All matter else deems weak." —Huch Ado... | |
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