 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 pàgines
...lavishly paid her, let us write upon her memorial tablet the words with which Dorothea is enshrined : " The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ; and that things are not so bad with me and you as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pàgines
...they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on...partly dependent on unhistoric acts ; and that things arc not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 556 pàgines
...lavishly paid her, let us write upon her memorial tablet the words with which Dorothea is enshrined : " The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ; and that things are not so bad with me and you as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pàgines
...they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on...But the effect of her being on those around her was' incaleulably diffusive; for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ;... | |
 | 1881 - 624 pàgines
...she struggled, yet her struggles were those of ' young and noble impulse.' When we are told that ' the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive,' we do more than accept the writer's word for it ; we can imagine it for ourselves ; and no novel-reader... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pàgines
...self-sacrifice. Here we are shown something of the efficacy of a noble nature. in its saving influence on others. For " the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts." as George Eliot well says, and is not the record of such acts in fiction true realism ? What realism... | |
 | 260 pàgines
...Eliot did not design to convey this, the last sentence touching Dorothea declares — " the effort of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive ; for the growing good of the world partly depends on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have... | |
 | 1881 - 200 pàgines
...though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth ; but her influence was incalculably diffusive ; for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on... | |
 | 1881 - 626 pàgines
...she struggled, yet her struggles were those of ' young and noble impulse.' When we are told that ' the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive,' we do more than accept the writer's word for it; we can imagine it for ourselves ; and no novel-reader... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pàgines
...they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on...But the effect of her being on those around her was incaleulably diffusive : for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ;... | |
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Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly... 
