 But it happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective; the outlines will sometimes...  Adam Bede, by George Eliot - Page 3by Mary Ann Evans - 1859Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 468 pages
...characters will bo entirely of my own choosing, and I ccruld select the most unexceptionable type of clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into...occasions. But you must have perceived long ago that I have 110 such lofty vocation, and that I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...characters would be entirely of my own choosing, and I could select the most unexceptionable type of clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into his mouth on all occasions." This is, when read in its context, sarcasm quite out of its natural element, floundering like a fish... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...characters would be entirely of my own choosing, and I could select the most unexceptionable type of clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into his mouth on all occasions." This is, when read in its context, sarcasm quite out of its natural element, floundering like a fish... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...refashion life and character entirely after my own liking ; I might select the most unexceptionable type of clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into his mouth on all occasions. But it happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 562 pages
...refashion life and character entirely after my own liking ; I might select the most unexceptionable type of clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into his mouth on all occasions. But it happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to... | |
 | 1881 - 674 pages
...characters would be entirely of my own choosing, and I could select the most unexceptionable type of a clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into...men and things as they have mirrored themselves in ray mind. The mirror is doubtless defective ; the outlines will sometimes be disturbed; the reflection... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1887 - 360 pages
...characters would be entirely of my own choosing, and I could select the most unexceptionable type of clergyman, and put my own admirable opinions into his mouth on all occasions." This is, when read in its context, sarcasm quite out of its natural element, floundering like a fish... | |
 | Karl Rhotert - Women in art - 1915 - 226 pages
...Tendenzromane schreiben, sie will uns das Pathos zeigen, das in jeder menschlichen Existenz liegt. „I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things äs they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective, but I feel äs much... | |
 | George Levine - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 368 pages
...self-consciously awkward, seventeenth chapter of Adam Bede explains that her "strongest effort is to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind."31 Even here, there is no simple realism, although fidelity to the actual is the primary focus.... | |
 | Henry Remak - Comparative literature - 1986 - 486 pages
...that famous sentence from chapter XVII oí Adam Bede where George Eliot states her aims: »to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind.«3 Eliot is fully aware of the innate shortcomings of the comparison, conceding: »The mirror... | |
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