George EliotAllen, 1884 - 218 pages |
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... ROMOLA 148 CHAPTER XII . HER POEMS 161 CHAPTER XIII . FELIX HOLT and MiddLEMARCH · • 175 CHAPTER XIV . DANIEL DERONDA • 192 LAST YEARS CHAPTER XV . · 204 LIBRARY CHAPTER I. ✓ INTRODUCTORY . SPEAKING of the contributions vi CONTENTS .
... ROMOLA 148 CHAPTER XII . HER POEMS 161 CHAPTER XIII . FELIX HOLT and MiddLEMARCH · • 175 CHAPTER XIV . DANIEL DERONDA • 192 LAST YEARS CHAPTER XV . · 204 LIBRARY CHAPTER I. ✓ INTRODUCTORY . SPEAKING of the contributions vi CONTENTS .
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Mathilde Blind. LIBRARY CHAPTER I. ✓ INTRODUCTORY . SPEAKING of the contributions made to literature by her own sex , George Eliot , in a charming essay written in 1854 , awards the palm of intellectual pre - eminence to the women of ...
Mathilde Blind. LIBRARY CHAPTER I. ✓ INTRODUCTORY . SPEAKING of the contributions made to literature by her own sex , George Eliot , in a charming essay written in 1854 , awards the palm of intellectual pre - eminence to the women of ...
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... speak in her own scientific phraseology : " The woman of large capacity can seldom rise beyond the absorption of ideas ; her physical conditions refuse to support the energy required for spontaneous activity ; the voltaic pile is not ...
... speak in her own scientific phraseology : " The woman of large capacity can seldom rise beyond the absorption of ideas ; her physical conditions refuse to support the energy required for spontaneous activity ; the voltaic pile is not ...
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... speak out of the fulness of their womanly natures ? That they too did not feel the genuine need to express modes of thought and feeling peculiar to themselves , which men , if at all , had but inadequately expressed hitherto ? Was not ...
... speak out of the fulness of their womanly natures ? That they too did not feel the genuine need to express modes of thought and feeling peculiar to themselves , which men , if at all , had but inadequately expressed hitherto ? Was not ...
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... speaking and reading . She herself always made a point of expressing herself in studied sen- tences , and on one occasion , when a friend had called to ask after a dying relative , she actually kept 16 GEORGE ELIOT .
... speaking and reading . She herself always made a point of expressing herself in studied sen- tences , and on one occasion , when a friend had called to ask after a dying relative , she actually kept 16 GEORGE ELIOT .
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