| George Eliot - 1901 - 542 Seiten
...the " art of sinking," by exclaiming, apropos, we need hardly say, of the nocturnal heavens : — " Divine Instructor ! Thy first volume this For man's perusal ! all in CAPITALS ! " It is this pedagogic tendency, this sermonizing attitude of Young's mind, which produces the wearisome... | |
| George Eliot - 1901 - 486 Seiten
...the "art of sinking," by exclaiming — a propoa, we need hardly say, of the nocturnal heavens — " Divine Instructor ! Thy first volume this For man's perusal ! all in CAPITALS ! " It is this pedagogic tendency, this sermonising attitude of Young's mind, which produces the wearisome... | |
| George Eliot - 1904 - 588 Seiten
...the " art of sinking," by exclaiming — a propos, we need hardly say, of the nocturnal heavens — " Divine Instructor! Thy first volume this For man's perusal! all in CAPITALS!" It is this pedagogic tendency, this sermonizing attitude of Young's mind, which produces the wearisome... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 336 Seiten
...the " art of sinking," by exclaiming — apropos, we need hardly say, of the nocturnal heavens — "Divine Instructor! Thy first volume this For man's perusal! all in CAPITALS!" It is this pedagogic tendency, this sermonizing attitude of Young's mind, which produces the wearisome... | |
| Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - 1987 - 240 Seiten
...unlike “The Lot of Man! How few of human Race “By their own Mud unmurder'd!...” (IX 1782-97) DIVINE INSTRUCTOR! Thy first Volume, This, For Man's Perusal; All in CAPITALS! In Moon and Stars (Heav'n's golden Alphabet!) Emblaz'd to seize the Sight; who runs, may read; Who reads, can understand.... | |
| Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - 1987 - 240 Seiten
...Stars" (IX 1304): a metaphor extended with, perhaps, over-expansive enthusiasm some 300 lines later: DIVINE INSTRUCTOR! Thy first Volume, This, For Man's Perusal; All in CAPITALS! In Moon and Stars (Heav'n's golden Alphabet!) Emblaz'd to seize the Sight; who runs, may read; Who reads, can understand.... | |
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