 ... very far from remarkable, — a man whose virtues were not heroic, and who had no undetected crime within his breast ; who had not the slightest mystery hanging about him, but was palpably and unmistakably commonplace ; who was not even in love, but...  The Universal review - Page 2071859Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...unmistakably commonplace : who was not even in love, but haa had that complaint favourably many years ago. " An utterly uninteresting character ! " I think I hear...; to whom tragedy means ermine tippets, adultery, andmurder ; and comedy, the adventures of some personage who is " quite a character." But, my dear... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...unmistakeably commonplace ; who was not even in love, but had had that complaint favourably many years ago. " An utterly uninteresting character !" I think I hear...your fellow-countrymen that are of this insignificant »tamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of yonr adult male fellowBritons returned in the last census,... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...unmistakeably commouplace ; who was not even in love, but had had that complaint favourably many years ago. "An utterly uninteresting character!" I think I hear...exclaim — Mrs. Farthingale, for example, who prefers tho ideal in fiction ; to whom tragedy means ermine tippets, adultery, and murder ; and comedy, the... | |
 | George Eliot - Clergy - 1858 - 382 pages
...unmistakably commonplace ; who was not even in love, but had had that complaint favourably many years ago. " An utterly uninteresting character ! " I think I hear...majority of your fellow-countrymen that are of this VOL. I. F insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned... | |
 | George Eliot - English fiction - 1858 - 196 pages
...had had that complaint favorably many years ago. "An utterly uninteresting character ! " 1 think T hear a lady reader exclaim — Mrs. Farthingale, for...ermine tippets, adultery, and murder ; and comedy, the advenMMFVf•* 'pWsonage who is " quite a character." But, my dear madam, it is so vwy large a. majority... | |
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...ago. ' An utterly UDinteresiing character!' I think I hear a lady reader exclaim — MrsFanhincale, for example, who prefers the ideal in fiction ; to...insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred oí jour adult male fellow-Britons returned in the laet cens.ua, are neither extraordinarily silly,... | |
 | 1867 - 584 pages
...and to such I would plead, not in my offn words, but in those of one of our great living authors : " It is so very large a majority of your fellow-countrymen...insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of jow adult male fellow Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 356 pages
...complaint favorably many years ago. " An utterly uninteresting character ! " I think I hear a lady rjader exclaim, — Mrs. Farthingale, for example, who prefers...tragedy means ermine tippets, adultery, and murder ; mid comedy, the adventures of some personage who is quite a " character." But, my dear madam, it... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...unmistakably commonplace ; who was not even in love, but had had that complaint favorably many years ago. "An utterly uninteresting character!" I think I hear...prefers the ideal in fiction ; to whom tragedy means ermin« tippets, adultery, and murder ; and comedy, the adventures of some personage who is quite a... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...and unmistakably commonplace ; who was not even in love, but had had that complaint many years ago. " An utterly uninteresting character!" I think I hear...reader exclaim, — Mrs. Farthingale, for example, > Chapter XIX who prefers the ideal In fiction ; to whom tragedy means ermine tippets, adultery and... | |
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