 But you produce your notes badly ; and that music which you sing is beneath you. It is a form of melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, seesaw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without any breadth...  Daniel Deronda - Page 65by George Eliot - 1909Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1876 - 424 pages
...is a form of melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, seesaw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without...of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sens& of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. Sing now something larger. And I shall... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1876 - 424 pages
...is a form of melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, seesaw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without...of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sens& of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. Sing now something larger. And I shall... | |
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...melody which expresses a puerile state of culture—a dandling, canting, see-saw kind of stuff—the passion and thought of people without any breadth...phrase of such melody : no cries of deep, mysterious passion—no conflict—no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. Sing now... | |
 | George Eliot - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1876 - 384 pages
...is a form of melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, see-saw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without...There is a sort of self-satisfied folly about every phsase of such melody : no cries of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sense of the universal.... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1876 - 462 pages
...melody whieh expresses a puerile state of eultnre—a dandling, eanting, seesaw kind of stuff—the passion and thought of people without any breadth...sort of self-satisfied folly about every phrase of sueh melody; no eries of deep, mysterious passion—no eonfliet—no sense of the universal. It makes... | |
 | George Eliot - 1877 - 418 pages
...melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, seesaw kind of stufi — the passion and thought of people without any breadth...of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no senss of " the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. Sing now something larger. And I... | |
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...is a form of melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, seesaw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without...conflict — no sense of the universal. It makes men email as they listen to it. Sing now something larger. And I shall see." " Oh, not now — by-and-by,"... | |
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...is a form of melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, see-saw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without...now something larger. And I shall see." "Oh, not now — by-and-by," said Gwendolen, with a sinking of heart at the sudden width of horizon opened round... | |
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