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FINALE. THE END Middlemarch George Eliot New York and Boston H. M. Caldwell Company Publishers To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. PRELUDE. Who that …
Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. — The Maid’s Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which see…
“‘Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza un yelmo de oro?’ ‘Lo que veo y columbro,’ respondio Sancho, ‘no es sino un hombre s…
“Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael, The affable archangel . . . Eve The story heard attentive, and was filled With admiration, and deep muse, to hear Of things so high and s…
1 st Gent . Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2 d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. “Sir James seems determined to do everything you wish,” said Celia,…
“Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as …
My lady’s tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. As…
“Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione.” — Italian Proverb . Mr. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of his time at the Grange in these weeks, and the hindrance which courtship occasio…
“Oh, rescue her! I am her brother now, And you her father. Every gentle maid Should have a guardian in each gentleman.” It was wonderful to Sir James Chettam how well he continued to like going to t…
1 st Gent . An ancient land in ancient oracles Is called “law-thirsty”: all the struggle there Was after order and a perfect rule. Pray, where lie such lands now? . . . 2 d Gent . Why, wh…
