...faculty, like vision'" (DD 452) with the narrator's famous admonishment in chapter 20 of Middlemarch: "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" (M 194). 9. The best discussion of this is Alexander Welsh's in George...

...itself into the coarse emotion of [human]kind; 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. Still, hear the good news: God is not so "well wadded." God does hear....

...for "the largeness of the world" is mercifully unsustainable, as the narrator has earlier explained: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...that roar which lies on the other side of silence" (194). Dorothea's more limited resolution will send her back to the middle-class household in an "attempt...

...disdains to obliterate us."31 There is a comparable passage in Middleman/} where George Eliot writes: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."32 This sentence is itself sublime, because "die" and "roar" and "other" and "silence" are...

...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...should die of that roar which lies on the other side 10 Henry James, unsigned review (1873), in George Eliot: The Critical Heritage, ed. David Carroll (New...

...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...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. Middlemarch George...

...Illusions Flannery: You have an elaborate metaphor in Middlemarch that I always liked. It goes like this. 'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grata and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of...

...ANSI Z 39.48- 1984. To the memory of my mother, and to my father, Laurie, Rachel, and Sarah If we had vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. — George Eliot,...

...James, The Principles of Psychology^ . . . hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat ... we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. George Eliot, Middlemarch* As you read, I doubt that you are aware of the pressure of your shirt on...

...Realismt Democracyt and Inequality If we had a keen vision for all ordinary human life. it would he like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat. and we would die of that roar whtch lies on the other side of silence. —George Eliot. Middlcmtm-h This study....