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" Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity... "
Social Ideals in English Letters - Page 186
by Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 329 pages
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor)., Volume 9

1873 - 972 pages
...Strauss. " Many Theresas have been born, who found for themselves no epic life wherein there wae a constant unfolding of farresonant action ; perhaps...found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion." Saint Theresa accordingly is now "foundress of nothing." Dorothea, whose history is thus preluded by...
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Volume 1, Book 2

George Eliot - 1871 - 432 pages
...born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far -resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness ; for these later - born Theresas were helped...
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Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volume 1

Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far -resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness ; for these later - born Theresas were helped...
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Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant sction ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...noble agreement ; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness ; for these later-born Theresas were helped by...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 3

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 594 pages
..."social morality" of the world, and made the sport of external circumstances. George Eliot replies, — "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." In other words, nobleness of nature, in the world of to-day, stands in imminent danger of shipwreck...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 57-58

Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pages
...distracted life. She sets herself to paint by no means a tragedy, but what she herself describes as ' a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, illmatched with the meanness of opportunity.* And what she loses in beauty and in grandeur of effect by this deliberate aim, she seems to gain in...
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...noble agreement ; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness ; for these later-born Theresas were helped by...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 29

1877 - 1212 pages
...unorganized. " Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. . . . With dim lights and tangled circumstances they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble...
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Studies in Literature, 1789-1877

Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pages
...unorganized. " Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. '. . . With dim lights and tangled circumstances they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble...
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The Works of George Eliot: Middlemarch

George Eliot - 1878 - 434 pages
...selves no epic life wherein there was a constan• unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only i life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of oppor tunity ; perhaps a, tragic failure which found nc sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion....
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