...find perfect stillness' (ch. 1) anticipates, as Gillian Beer has noted, a famous Middlemarch passage: 'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.'27 There has been, however, a complete shift in register. While Larimer...

...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. (226) George Eliot's extraordinary story "The Lifted Veil" (published in...

...Middlemarch, and are indeed echoed in the 61 famous passage of authorial reflection suggesting that "if we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...that roar which lies on the other side of silence" (20:192). The coachman Sampson, who is featured as a guide in the same introduction, "could tell the...

...the mind goes to seed. Anonymous IIP: * + , ". V , . //'--$?»•£$ 4 ff* ' A* BEyotfb v. If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. George Eliot (1819-1880) The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things...

...becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. — George Eliot 1 low silently, how silently, me wondrous gift is given. — Phillips brooks — Orison...

...is so close that we lose all sense of its proportions. And better so; for, as George Eliot has said, "if we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow, or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."7...

...vision and feeling of all ordinary life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. 48 All ordinary life, all the ordinary women s lives that have been barred from the life and language...

...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. —MM For there is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair,...

...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it...about well-wadded with stupidity. — George Eliot I read somewhere that a ttibe of Americans- who came-wandering-in-about-forty-thousand-years-ago had...

...and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of ordinary life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of the roar that lies on the other side of silence. (Eliot 1871-1872) One of the most common experiences...