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;... The Contemporary Review - Стр. 3361877Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1873 - Страниц: 972
...Theresas train themselves to skilful and easy command of language by masterly translations of Strauss. " Many Theresas have been born, 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... | |
| George Eliot - 1871 - Страниц: 432
...order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves...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... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - Страниц: 444
...order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves...wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant sction ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - Страниц: 432
...order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves...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... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - Страниц: 594
..."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 - Страниц: 712
...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... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - Страниц: 460
...order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity ; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights... | |
| George Eliot - 1878 - Страниц: 434
...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.... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - Страниц: 494
...order. 285 That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity ; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights... | |
| 1881 - Страниц: 1180
...speaks of the many latter-day St. Theresas who find " for themselves no epic life wherein there is a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...meanness of opportunity. With dim lights and tangled circumstance, they try to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement ; but their ardor alternates... | |
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