 It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people despise. I find a source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence, which has been the fate...  Calcutta Review - Page 2021862Full view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 520 pages
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...immediate feelings—much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 468 pages
...outspoken, brave justice. - . It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I de-\ light in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 524 pages
...immediate feelings — mnch harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...which lofty-minded people despise. I find a source of del,cious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence, which has been the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...immediate feelings- — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of worldstirring... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 326 pages
...immediate feelings, — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. " It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellowmortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring... | |
 | George Eliot - 1877 - 504 pages
...cheered and helped onward by your fellow-feeling, your forbearance, your outspoken, brave justice. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness...in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people de8 pise. I find a source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence,... | |
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