 THIS Rector of Broxton is little better than a pagan ! " I hear one of my readers exclaim. " How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful things...  Adam Bede, by George Eliot - Page 2by Mary Ann Evans - 1859Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 524 pages
...I hear one of my lady readers exclaim. " How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might...good as reading a sermon." Certainly I could, my fair critie, if I were a clever novelist, not obliged to creep servilely after nature and fact, but able... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...I hear one of my lady readers exclaim. " How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful things—quite as good as reading a sermon." Certainly I could, my fair critic, if I were a clever... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 468 pages
...I hear one of my lady readers exclaim. " How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful things—quite as good as reading a sermon." Certainly I could, my fair critie, if I were a clever... | |
 | 1860 - 890 pages
...I hear one of my lady-readers exclaim. ' How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might...as good as reading a sermon.' " Certainly I could, ray fair critic, if I were a clever novelist, not obliged to creep servilely after nature and fact,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...I hear one of my lady readers exclaim. ' How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice! You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful things—quite as good as reading a sermon.' Certainly I could, my fair critic, if I were a clever... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...pagan ! " I hear one of my readers exclaim. " How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might...quite as good as reading a sermon." Certainly I could, if I held it the highest vocation of the novelist to represent things as they never have been and never... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 562 pages
...pagan ! " I hear one of my readers exclaim. " How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice. You might...quite as good as reading a sermon." Certainly I could, if I held it the highest vocation of the novelist to represent things as they never have been and never... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1877 - 466 pages
...rector of Broxton is little better than a pagan,' I hear one of my lady readers exclaim." * * * " ' You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful...a sermon.' " " Certainly I could, my fair critic, it I were a clever novelist not obliged to creep servilely after nature and fact, but able to represent... | |
 | 1881 - 674 pages
...much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual ad vice. You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful things — quite as good reading as a sermon." ' Certainly I could, my fair critic, if I were a clever novelist, not obliged... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1887 - 360 pages
...I hear one of my lady readers exclaim. ' How much more edifying it would have been if you had made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice! You might have put into his mouth the most beautiful things—quite as good as reading a sermon.' Certainly I could, my fair critic, if I were a clever... | |
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