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... who raise good feelings . You must not be surprised at anything in me . I think it is too late for me to alter . I don't know how to set about being wise , as you told me to be . " " I seldom find I do any good by my [ 27 ] REVELATIONS.
... who raise good feelings . You must not be surprised at anything in me . I think it is too late for me to alter . I don't know how to set about being wise , as you told me to be . " " I seldom find I do any good by my [ 27 ] REVELATIONS.
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... and having an interesting quarrel with her ! " " Quarrel with her ? " repeated Deronda , rather un- comfortably . " Oh , about theology , of course ; nothing personal . ―― But she told you what you ought to think [ 29 ] REVELATIONS.
... and having an interesting quarrel with her ! " " Quarrel with her ? " repeated Deronda , rather un- comfortably . " Oh , about theology , of course ; nothing personal . ―― But she told you what you ought to think [ 29 ] REVELATIONS.
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George Eliot. ―― But she told you what you ought to think , and then left you with a grand air which was admirable . Is she an Antinomian ? - if so , tell her I am an Antinomian painter , and introduce me . I should like to paint her and ...
George Eliot. ―― But she told you what you ought to think , and then left you with a grand air which was admirable . Is she an Antinomian ? - if so , tell her I am an Antinomian painter , and introduce me . I should like to paint her and ...
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... told . But in accounting for Mirah's flight he made the statements about the father's conduct as vague as he could , and threw the emphasis on her yearning to come to England as the place where she might find her mother . Also he kept ...
... told . But in accounting for Mirah's flight he made the statements about the father's conduct as vague as he could , and threw the emphasis on her yearning to come to England as the place where she might find her mother . Also he kept ...
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... told all she knew without interruption . " Mr. Deronda has the highest admiration for him , " she ended- ' seems quite to look up to him . And he says Mirah is just the sister to understand this brother . " 66 " Deronda is getting ...
... told all she knew without interruption . " Mr. Deronda has the highest admiration for him , " she ended- ' seems quite to look up to him . And he says Mirah is just the sister to understand this brother . " 66 " Deronda is getting ...
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Page 244 - I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends ; And, as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense : My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.
Page 351 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 207 - All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter. The pang, the curse, with which they died, Had never passed away : I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray.
Page 170 - The effect of my education can never be done away with. The Christian sympathies in which my mind was reared can never die out of me," said Deronda, with increasing tenacity of tone. " But I consider it my duty — it is the impulse of my feeling — to identify myself, as far as possible, with my hereditary people, and if I can see any work to be done for them that I can give my soul and hand to I shall choose to do it.
Page 114 - ... the blending of a complete personal love in one current with a larger duty...
Page 49 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 32 - If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Page 262 - Ah, you argue and you look forward — you are' Daniel Charisi's grandson," said Kalonymos, adding a benediction in Hebrew. With that they parted ; and almost as soon as Deronda was in London, the aged man was again on shipboard, greeting the friendly stars without any eager curiosity. CHAPTER LXI.
Page 188 - Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing that remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our longing or dread. We are not always in a state of strong emotion, and when we are calm we can use our memories and gradually change the bias of our fear, as we do our tastes. Take your fear as a safeguard.
Page 172 - I desire a grandson who shall have a true Jewish heart. Every Jew should rear his family as if he hoped that a Deliverer might spring from it.'" In uttering these last sentences the Princess narrowed her eyes, waved her head up and down, and spoke slowly with a new kind of chest-voice, as if she were quoting unwillingly.