Middlemarch, a study of provincial lifeClassic Books, 1909 |
Common terms and phrases
answer asked Bambridge believe better Brooke Bulstrode Bulstrode's Cadwallader Caleb Casaubon Celia chair Chettam cholera daugh dear debt Dodo Doro Dorothea dread Dunkirk everything eyes face Farebrother father fear feeling felt Frank Hawley Fred Vincy Fred's Freshitt friends Garth GEORGE ELIOT getic give glad gone Hackbutt hand happiness Hawley hear heart hinder hope husband imagine knew ladies Ladislaw live looking Lowick Lydgate Lydgate's marriage married Mary mean ment Middlemarch mind morning never obliged opium pain paused phatically Plymdale poor Raffles reason Rector Rosa Rosamond round Rumpelstiltskin seemed sense silence Sir Godwin Sir James smile sort soul speak stay Stone Court strode's suppose sure talk tell Tertius thing thought tion Tipton told Toller tone took town trouble Trumbull turned utterance Vicar voice walked way-marks wife Will's wish woman words young
Popular passages
Page 6 - You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear. You will see visions. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. To be sure, for younger sons and women who have no money, it is a sort of provision to go mad : they are taken care of then. But you must not run into that. I daresay you are a little bored here with our good dowager ; but think what a bore you might become yourself to your fellow -creatures if you were...
Page 27 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 439 - She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem. As the years went on he opposed her less and less, whence Rosamond concluded that he had learned the value of her opinion...
Page 370 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 320 - But this imperfectly-taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her. The man whose prosperity she had shared through nearly half a life, and who had unvaryingly cherished her — now that punishment had befallen him it was not possible to her in any sense to forsake him.
Page 225 - What suit of grace hath Virtue to put on If Vice shall wear as good, and do as well ? If Wrong, if Craft, if Indiscretion Act as fair parts with ends as laudable ? Which all this mighty volume of events The world, the universal map of deeds, Strongly controls, and proves from all descents, That the directest course still hest succeeds.
Page 9 - Synoptical Tabulation for the use of Mrs. Casaubon, she carefully enclosed and sealed, writing within the envelope, "I could not use it. Do you not see now that I could not submit my soul to yours, by working hopelessly at what I have no belief Middlemarch in — Dorothea?" Then she deposited the paper in her own desk.
Page 399 - Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be; If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. And now good-morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
Page 337 - Dorothea's face looking up at him with a sweet trustful gravity. The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
Page 129 - ... reasoning is essentially no more peculiar to evangelical belief than the use of wide phrases for narrow motives is peculiar to Englishmen. There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow men.