 | 1873 - 972 דפים
...who found for themselves no epic life wherein there wae a constant unfolding of farresonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion." Saint Theresa accordingly is now "foundress of nothing." Dorothea, whose history is thus preluded by... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 594 דפים
..."social morality" of the world, and made the sport of external circumstances. George Eliot replies, — "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." In other words, nobleness of nature, in the world of to-day, stands in imminent danger of shipwreck... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 דפים
...distracted life. She sets herself to paint by no means a tragedy, but what she herself describes as ' a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, illmatched with the meanness of opportunity.* And what she loses in beauty and in grandeur of effect by this deliberate aim, she seems to gain in... | |
 | 1877 - 1212 דפים
...who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. . . . With dim lights and tangled circumstances they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 דפים
...who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. '. . . With dim lights and tangled circumstances they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 434 דפים
...selves no epic life wherein there was a constan• unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only i life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of oppor tunity ; perhaps a, tragic failure which found nc sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 430 דפים
[ אנו מתנצלים, אך הגישה לתוכן של עמוד זה מוגבלת ] | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 742 דפים
...found for themselves no epic life wherein there might be a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. . . . To common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later born... | |
 | 1881 - 1180 דפים
...who find " for themselves no epic life wherein there is a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. With dim lights and tangled circumstance, they try to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement... | |
 | 1881 - 428 דפים
...with all her brains and "plans, "a failure; why "the many Theresas find for themselves no epic life, only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." You must search these marvelous studies in motives for the key to the blunders of "the blundering lives... | |
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Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity;... 
