IF there are ranks in suffering, Israel takes precedence of all the nations — if the duration of sorrows and the patience with which they are borne ennoble, the Jews are among the aristocracy of every land — if a literature is called rich in the possession... Daniel Deronda - Page 132by George Eliot - 1876 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1878 - 424 pages
...the aristocracy of every land — if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a National Tragedy...which the poets and the actors were also the heroes?" I Deronda had lately been reading that passage of Zunz, and it occurred to him by way of contrast when... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic 硳 A * j. GEOBOE Енот— Daniel Deronda. Bk. VI. Ch. XLI1. The Jews spend at Easter. k. HERBEBT— Jacula... | |
| Thomas Fuller - Sermons, English - 1891 - 618 pages
...among the aristoeracy of every land. If a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy...for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and actors were also the heroes." — GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Dercada, bk. vi. chap. xlii. SHORT VIEW AND... | |
| George Eliot - English literature - 1894 - 424 pages
...the aristocracy of every land, — if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a National Tragedy...stamp of distinction in sorrow or in any other form of aristocracy. Ezra Cohen was not clad in the sublime pathos of the martyr, and his taste for money-getting... | |
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic '1 bundled years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes. a. GEOBQE ELIOT — Daniel Deronda.... | |
| Israel Abrahams - 1899 - 288 pages
...the aristocracy of every land — if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a National Tragedy...which the poets and the actors were also the heroes? The story of the medieval section of this pathetic martyrdom is written in the Selichoth and in the... | |
| Madison Clinton Peters - Antisemitism - 1899 - 372 pages
...among the aristocracy of every iand ; If a literature Is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy...the poets and the actors were also the heroes.— GEORGB ELIOT. -•F. TENNYSON NEELY, PUBLISHER, LONDON. NEW YORK. Copyright, 1899, by F. TENNVSUN NKKLY... | |
| George Eliot - 1900 - 314 pages
...the aristocracy of every land — if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a National Tragedy...years, in which the poets and the actors were also tho heroes? " Deronda had lately been reading that passage of Zunz, and it occurred to him by way of... | |
| George Eliot - 1901 - 610 pages
...the aristocracy of every land — if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a National Tragedy...contrast when he was going to the Cohens, who certainly oore no obvious stamp of distinction in sorrow or in any other form of aristocracy. Ezra Cohen was... | |
| Maurice Henry Harris - Jews - 1904 - 242 pages
...489 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK FOREWORD "If a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy...which the poets and the actors were also the heroes." — ZUNZ When the impatient youth demands, like the heathen from Hillel, a "definition" of Judaism,... | |
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