| 1857 - 878 páginas
...with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano. They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy,...sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their firet-born,... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1833 - 142 páginas
...hair-breadth escapes nor thrilling adventures ; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius. . . . They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald or disjointed. Yet these commonplace people, many of them, bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime... | |
| 1857 - 820 páginas
...the fashion of a volcano. They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy, whose convereation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace...sublime prompting to do the painful right; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first... | |
| 1857 - 804 páginas
...complexions more or less muddy, whoso conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commouplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and...sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first... | |
| 1902 - 902 páginas
...thought and experience portrayed! Yet, in George Eliot's own words, "these commonplace people have a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right. " They take on dignity from their moral struggle, whether the struggle ends in victory or defeat. By an infinite... | |
| George Eliot - 1858 - 382 páginas
...with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano. They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy,...sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born,... | |
| George Eliot - 1858 - 196 páginas
...and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of the volcano. They aro simply men of complexions more or less muddy, whose...many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the tuhlime prompting to do the painful right'; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their tacred joys... | |
| 1859 - 826 páginas
...manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano. They are simply men of complexions more or leas muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and...sublime prompting to do the painful right; they have their unspokeifsorrows, and their sacrtd joys; their hea*s have perhaps gone out towards their first-born,... | |
| 1867 - 584 páginas
...with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano. They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 páginas
...with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano. They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy,...sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born,... | |
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