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... Daniel Deronda - Page 172by George Eliot - 1909Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - England - 1876 - 444 pages
...soul consents. That is enough. I have, after all, been the instrument my father wanted. — ' I desiro a grandson who shall have a true Jewish heart. Every...narrowed her eyes, waved her head up and down, and spoko slowly with a new kind of chest-voice, as if she were quoting unwillingly. " Were those my grandfather's... | |
| Bayard Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 404 pages
...endurance, much of it needless, is imposed upon men by this truth! So, when sho makes a Jew say t " Every Jew should rear his family as if he hoped that a deliverer might spring from it," she reveals the secret of the genius and persistence of the race. "In speaking, he always recovered... | |
| James Darmesteter - Jews - 1884 - 126 pages
...Äinber fo erjiel)en, alê roenn er hoffte, baß ein 9)iefftaê an* il)nen geboren roerben follte". Every Jew should rear his family as if he hoped, that a deliverer might spring from it. sjiein , ba* ift eine ju ftolje iHoüe unb eine jii ilefährlid)е. nfrael foat mit feinen ílieffiaffen... | |
| George Eliot - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1886 - 760 pages
...that I should deliver up what I withheld — -who is punishing me because I deceived my father ami did not warn him that I should contradict his trust...Jewish heart. Every Jew should rear his family as if ho hoped that a Deliverer might spring from it."' in uttering these last sentences the Princess narrowed... | |
| Alison Booth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 414 pages
...Alcharisi became a very different kind of "instrument," or "delicate vessel" in its biological sense: "I have after all been the instrument my father wanted....heart. Every Jew should rear his family as if he hoped a Deliverer might spring from it'" (DD, p. 726). In fact, through this anti-Virgin does spring a Jewish... | |
| Susan David Bernstein - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 226 pages
...only as Daniel Deronda's mother. Leonora wryly recognizes her servitude to this procreative capacity: "I have after all been the instrument my father wanted...desire a grandson who shall have a true Jewish heart.' "as Besides her rank as reproducer of the father and his indomitable will, Leonora is also an "instrument"... | |
| Carolyn Dever - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 255 pages
...faith. The Princess, the woman who acts as the conduit between Daniel and his grandfather, reports, '"I have after all been the instrument my father wanted.'...if he hoped that a Deliverer might spring from it' " (726). In this quotation, Daniel's grandfather ventriloquizes Daniel's mother to offer a message... | |
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