George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1885 - 7 pages |
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16 BLANDFORD SQ Adam Bede admiration April beautiful Blackwood Bodichon Bray charming cheerful Church Civita Vecchia Clerical Scenes Congreve dear delicious delight dined Dorking Dresden enjoy feel Felix Holt felt Florence Floss frescoes Gallery George Eliot give glad grand greve happy hear hope interest Italy John Black John wood Journal journey July June kind Letter to John Letter to Miss Lewes Lewes's Liggins look Madame Madonna March Mill mind Miss Hennell Miss Sara Hennell morning mountains Munich novel one's painted Palace Peter Taylor picture pleasant pleasure portrait precious pretty PRIORY quiet Rome Romola Scenes of Clerical seems Sept sight Silas Marner story sympathy talk tell thank things thought tion Titian to-day town volume walk WANDSWORTH week wish words write written yesterday
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Page 258 - It is the habit of my imagination to strive after as full a vision of the medium in which a character moves as of the character itself.
Page 251 - Romola" ploughed into her more than any of her other books. She told me she could put her finger on it as marking a well-defined transition in her life. In her own words, " I began it a young woman, — I finished it an old woman.
Page 258 - But with regard to that and to my whole book, my predominant feeling is not that I have achieved anything, but that great, great facts have struggled to find a voice through me, and have only been able to speak brokenly. That consciousness makes me cherish the more any proof that my work has been seen to have some true significance by minds prepared not simply by instruction, but by that religious and moral sympathy with the historical life of man which is the larger half of culture.
Page 50 - Dinah's ultimate relation to Adam was suggested by George, when I had read to him the first part of the first volume: he was so delighted with the presentation of Dinah and so convinced that the readers' interest would centre in her, that he wanted her to be the principal figure at the last. I accepted the idea at once, and from the end of the third chapter worked with it constantly in view.
Page 230 - I think of death as a fast-approaching end of a journey — double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
Page 55 - I owe him a debt of gratitude. My acquaintance with him was the brightest ray in a very dreary, wasted period of my life. I had given up all ambition whatever, lived from hand to mouth, and thought the evil of each day sufficient.
Page 232 - It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
Page 212 - For the last six years I have ceased to be " Miss Evans " for any one who has personal relations with me — having held myself under all the responsibilities of a married woman. I wish this to be distinctly understood ; and when I tell you that we have a great boy of eighteen at home who calls me "mother...
Page 164 - As for me, I am thrown into a state of humiliating passivity by the sight of the great things done in the far past : it seems as if life were not long enough to learn, and as if my own activity were so completely dwarfed by comparison that I should never have courage for more creation of my own.
Page 8 - Book, however named, that still takes hold of me, and that grows rarer every year — a human book — written out of the heart of a live man, not merely out of the brain of an author — full of tenderness and pathos without a scrap of sentimentality, of sense without dogmatism, of earnestness without twaddle — a book that makes one feel friends, at once and for always, with the man or woman who wrote it!