Life of George EliotW. Scott, 1890 - 174 lappuses |
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78. lappuse - But I hope you will not find it at all a sad story, as a whole, since it sets or is intended to set in a strong light the remedial influences of pure, natural human relations.
164. lappuse - We have one great novelist who is gifted with the utmost power of rendering the external traits of our town population; and if he could give us their psychological character their conceptions of life, and their emotions with the same truth as their idiom and manners, his books would be the greatest contribution Art has ever made to the awakening of social sympathies. But...
44. lappuse - It had always been a vague dream of mine that some time or other I might write a novel ; and my shadowy conception of what the novel was to be varied, of course, from one epoch of my life to another. But I never went further towards the actual writing of the novel than an introductory chapter describing a Staffordshire village and the life of the neighboring farmhouses ; and as the years passed on I lost any hope that I should ever be able to write a novel, just as I desponded about everything else...
115. lappuse - Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May; and* she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used so often as the inspiring trumpet-calls of men, the words God, Immortality, Duty, pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.
152. lappuse - ... from your own utter want of moral emotion. I am just and honest, not because I expect to live in another world, but because, having felt the pain of injustice and dishonesty towards myself, I have a fellow-feeling with other men, who would suffer the same pain if I were unjust or dishonest towards them.
87. lappuse - It is the habit of my imagination to strive after as full a vision of the medium in which a character moves as of the character itself. The psychological causes which prompted me to give such details of Florentine life and history as I have given, are precisely the same as those which determined me in giving the details of English village life in ' Silas Marner,' or the " Dodson " life, out of which were developed the destinies of poor Tom and Maggie.
45. lappuse - But his prevalent impression was, that though I could hardly write a poor novel, my effort would want the highest quality of fiction dramatic presentation. He used to say, ' You have wit, description, and philosophy those go a good way towards the production of a novel. It is worth while for you to try the experiment.