| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 Seiten
...so little extra force for their personal application. Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long, studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound...large drafts on his affections would not fail to be honored; for we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally... | |
| George Eliot - 1901 - 630 Seiten
...leave so little extra force for their personal application. Poor Mr Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound...entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of then). And now he was in danger of being saddened by the very conviction that his circumstances were... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 420 Seiten
...so little extra force for their personal application. Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound...us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in [ H8 ] metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. And now he was in danger of being saddened... | |
| Rudolf Haller - 1982 - 520 Seiten
...drastically fail in his linguistic-communicative "receivemanship" as well as "dispatchmanship." "For all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled...metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them" (George Elliot). "£i/i Bild hielt uns gefangen. Und heraus konnten wir nicht, denn es lag in unserer... | |
| George Douglas Atkins, Michael L. Johnson - 1985 - 240 Seiten
...aboriginal, universal, linguistic error, for as George Eliot says in an often-quoted passage in Middlemarch, "We all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in Metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."6 The escape from this entanglement in the net of a metaphor (another metaphor!) is not a substitution... | |
| Daniel Cottom - 1987 - 276 Seiten
...dangerous? Although Eliot explicitly addressed this problem in terms of the broader issue of metaphor — "for we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts...metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them" (A/, I: S7) — the problem identified in the omnipresence of metaphor is this problem of synecdoche.... | |
| Winifred Bryan Horner - 1983 - 190 Seiten
...another the two kinds of rhetoric are. In a well-known passage in Middlemarch, George Eliot observes that "we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled...metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them" (book 1, chap. 10). "Entangled": it is of course itself a metaphor, and so an example of what the sentence... | |
| James Edward Young - 1988 - 260 Seiten
...is a Jew. — Abram Tertz (Jewish pseudonym for Andrei Sinyavsky) All poets are Jews. —Paul Celan We all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled...metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot I Of the many poetic references to the Holocaust by nonvictims, those in Sylvia Plath's... | |
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