A Free Lance in the Field of Life and LettersA. Mason, 1874 - 340 pages |
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... original , but at least a highly charged derivative , moral living force . Perhaps even thus much is still too little to have said . For George Eliot seems already securely to belong to the very small number of those choice literary ...
... original , but at least a highly charged derivative , moral living force . Perhaps even thus much is still too little to have said . For George Eliot seems already securely to belong to the very small number of those choice literary ...
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... original types of nature , easily perfect at once , and with no trace of any work- manship whatever upon them . How much character , for instance , is unfolded with a stroke of the pen when of a certain " thin woman with a chron c liver ...
... original types of nature , easily perfect at once , and with no trace of any work- manship whatever upon them . How much character , for instance , is unfolded with a stroke of the pen when of a certain " thin woman with a chron c liver ...
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... original scene oc- curs . One would not willingly spare either of these scenes , but they resemble each other enough to suggest a sense of that limitation in the opulence of George Eliot's genius , which , as before hinted , is GEORGE ...
... original scene oc- curs . One would not willingly spare either of these scenes , but they resemble each other enough to suggest a sense of that limitation in the opulence of George Eliot's genius , which , as before hinted , is GEORGE ...
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... original to the substitute ) — “ egoism " is to be sternly repressed — it is to be brought to the altar of sacrifice . In the dialect of a school , she preaches " altruism , " in antithesis to " " " egoism , " that is , devotion to ...
... original to the substitute ) — “ egoism " is to be sternly repressed — it is to be brought to the altar of sacrifice . In the dialect of a school , she preaches " altruism , " in antithesis to " " " egoism , " that is , devotion to ...
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... original constitution . It was always that in germ which at any moment it has become in develop- ment . In this sense , it is not too much to say , and to say again , human character in George Eliot's philosophy is given , fixed ...
... original constitution . It was always that in germ which at any moment it has become in develop- ment . In this sense , it is not too much to say , and to say again , human character in George Eliot's philosophy is given , fixed ...
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