 We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If...  The Living Age - Page 1441873Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - City and town life - 1871 - 432 pages
...discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what...perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1871 - 438 pages
...discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what...perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and... | |
 | England - 1872 - 864 pages
...them turn to the scene in the library at Lowick Manor, in chapter 83. " We do not expect people to bo deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; imd perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If wo had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...within ourselves. In each of these brief passages there are materials for an essay or a sermon :— " We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what...perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...supernatural gifts are lacking in her has written words which may be quoted in this connection : " That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact...frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...that of a shrimp-pool or of deeper waters—which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. —o— That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact...perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like. hearing the grass grow... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 892 pages
...looks, words, and phrases, which makes a large part in the lives of most girls."—(Middlemarch, xvi.) " That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact...frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and... | |
 | George Pellew - Bowdoin Prize - 1883 - 68 pages
...the last of the great novelists refers to a still further development of sympathy, when she says, " That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind. ... If we had a keener vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the... | |
 | Mary Bayly - Authors, English - 1890 - 376 pages
...in the last little reprint of her verses which she lived to see go forth,—" The Suffering Poor." " That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency " had deeply inwrought itself into her emotions. She writes the o 1 "Poems and Ballads," by Mrs. Sewell,... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1894 - 426 pages
...discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what...perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and... | |
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