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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.” Bulstrode’s first object after Lydgate had left Stone Court was to examine Raffles’s pockets, which he imagine…
Clown . . . . ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not? Froth . I have so: because it is an open room, and good for winter. Clo . Why, very well then: I ho…
Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind. Dorothea’s impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication of Ly…
Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me. When Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode’s anxiety by telling her that her husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that…
“Mercifully grant that we may grow aged together.” —BOOK OF TOBIT: Marriage Prayer . In Middlemarch a wife could not long remain ignorant that the town held a bad opinion of her husband. No feminine…
“Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l’ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l’inconstance.”—PASCAL. Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was…
To mercy, pity, peace, and love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight, Return their thankfulness. . . . . . . For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face; And Lov…
“And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, To mark the full-fraught man and best indued With some suspicion.” — Henry V . The next day Lydgate had to go to Brassing, and told Rosamond that he shou…
“Would it were yesterday and I i’ the grave, With her sweet faith above for monument.” Rosamond and Will stood motionless—they did not know how long—he looking towards the spot where Dorothea had st…
“Now, I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended their talk, they drew nigh to a very miry slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the bo…
