If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human 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. Gems - Seite 511897 - 167 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Eia Asen - 2004 - 224 Seiten
...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...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels' heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it... | |
| Eia Asen - 2004 - 224 Seiten
...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...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels' heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it... | |
| Eia Asen - 2004 - 224 Seiten
...itself ioto the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it lf we bad a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life. it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels' heart beat. and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it... | |
| Eugene Goodheart - 252 Seiten
...self-destructive — as the narrator himself acknowledges: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we would die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." Who would want to be in touch all... | |
| Kevis Goodman - 2004 - 268 Seiten
...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. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. George Eliot, Middlemarch: a Study of Provincial Life INTRODUCTION Recent... | |
| Louise A. Poresky - 2005 - 115 Seiten
...stance in this the world of illusion, seeing that though he is in it, he is not of it. 4 PERCEPTION 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. — George Eliot, Middlemarch The task of the mind, the human intellect,... | |
| George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 Seiten
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the... | |
| Willard Spiegelman - 2005 - 256 Seiten
...her own belief better than any other passage alluded to by this most allusive of contemporary poets: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...that roar which lies on the other side of silence" (Middlemarch, II, 20). Always aware of "the dolor of the particular" ("High Noon," W, 310), from which... | |
| Kathleen Long Bostrom - 2005 - 380 Seiten
...of the world is born. Emmanuel, Godwith-us. Lullaby on the loudspeakers! Jesus Christ is born! DAY 6 "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar that lies on the other side... | |
| Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 Seiten
...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. GEORGE ELIOT, Middleware}) George Eliot is reflecting upon Dorothea Brooke's... | |
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