It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people despise. I find a source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence, which has been the fate... Calcutta Review - Página 2021862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 páginas
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 520 páginas
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 páginas
...immediate feelings—much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 468 páginas
...outspoken, brave justice. - . It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I de-\ light in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
| George Eliot - 1859 - 524 páginas
...immediate feelings — mnch harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...which lofty-minded people despise. I find a source of del,cious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence, which has been the... | |
| George Eliot - 1867 - 486 páginas
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 páginas
...immediate feelings- — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 páginas
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
| Joseph Converse Heywood - 1877 - 326 páginas
...immediate feelings, — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. " It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellowmortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
| George Eliot - 1877 - 504 páginas
...cheered and helped onward by your fellow-feeling, your forbearance, your outspoken, brave justice. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people de8 pise. I find a source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence,... | |
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