...there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchednessl It is so needful we should remember their existence,...loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things — men who see beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly...

...there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness ! It is so needful we should remember their existence,...loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things — men who see - beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how...

...there are so many of these common, coarse people, who have no picturesque, sentimental wretchedness. It is so needful we should remember their existence,...lofty theories which only fit a world of extremes There are few prophets in the world, — few sublimely beautiful women, — few heroes. I can't afford...

...homes with their tin pans, their brown pitchers, their rough curs and their clusters of onions. "It is needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them out of our religion and philosophy, and frame lofty theories which only fit a world of extremes. Therefore...

...there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness ! It is so needful we should remember their existence,...extremes. Therefore let Art always remind us of them. . .There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to...

...352-76. 25 Cf . the seventeenth chapter of Adam Bede, where George Eliot says in part the following: 'let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of life to the faithful representing of commonplace things . . . It is for this rare, precious quality...

...there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness! Therefore let Art always remind us of them; therefore...loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things ... I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities [as heroes...

...fiction to truth, and thus to be free of the artifice and manipulations that make up illusion and instead "to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things" (182). The paradox seems unavoidable when we recall, with Gombrich, with Frye,...

...responsibility to the society they dissected, George Eliot had impressed upon them that fiction should "give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things";32 that fiction must, moreover, be grounded in the artist's own sympathy for his...

...there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness! It is so needful we should remember their existence,...loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things. (II. 17) This passage may be taken as the manifesto of that midVictorian realism...