 She yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will. "What should I do — how should I act now, this very day, if I could clutch my own pain, and compel it to silence, and think of those three?  Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Seite 281von George Eliot - 1872Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 Seiten
...not to be sought out by her fancy : they were chosen for her. She yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her...and compel it to silence and think of those three ?" ' This picture leaves a sense of want in the mind of the reader that survives even the powerful... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 Seiten
...not to be sought out by her fancy: they were chosen for her. She yearned toward the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will. " What should I do—how should I act now, this very day, if I could clutch my own pain, and compel it to silence,... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 Seiten
...to govern the life. It is said of a character in fiction : " She yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will." That is the temper which we must aim at cultivating. But, you will say, Duty is a very good thing in... | |
 | 1890 - 612 Seiten
...consciousness toward the fullest truth, the least partial good." " She yearned toward the perfect right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will."* In communities where it was held that " it does as much harm as good to give a too familiar aspect... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1899 - 392 Seiten
...George Eliot, in her description of Dorothea (inAfiddlemarck): ' ' She yearned toward the perfect right, that it might make a throne within her and rule her errant will." Asking for another motive beyond the moral motive practically means, what shall I gain by right action,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1900 - 364 Seiten
...contact with hers laid an obligation on her as if they had been suppliants bearing the sacred branch 1 The objects of her rescue were not to be sought out...and compel it to silence, and think of those three f ' This picture leaves a sense of want in the mind of the reader that survives even the powerful and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1901 - 630 Seiten
...to be sought out by her fancy : they were chosen for _h£E-_S_he yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her...and compel it to silence, and think of those three ? " Itr had taken long for her to come to that question, and there was light piercing into the room.... | |
 | Elizabeth McCracken - 1918 - 136 Seiten
...not to be sought out by her- fancy : they were chosen for her. She yearned towards the Perfect Right that it might make a throne within her and rule her...could clutch my own pain and compel it to Silence and tliihk of those three ? " In one of his essays Walter Pater makes a suggestive remark about the highest... | |
 | Anna Theresa Kitchel - 1921 - 354 Seiten
...the face of the earth", in the face of her own trouble, a trouble in which she can still ask herself, "What should I do, how should I act now, this very...and compel it to silence, and think of those three?" She has found "ohjects of rescue" at hand, "chosen for her", her idealism has a chance to act amid... | |
 | 1883 - 998 Seiten
...to find for itself. Dorothea, in the hour of her deepest trial, " yearned toward the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her and rule her errant will ; " and after the crisis of her anguish is passed she says to another, " Trouble is so hard to bear,... | |
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