George Eliot's Two Marriages: An EssayG. H. Buchanan, 1886 - 34 pages |
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Page 5 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 17 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my State with kings.
Page 13 - But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases ; but God hath called us to peace.
Page 30 - It was that the Pater had not seen it. I would still give up my own life willingly if he could have the happiness instead of me. But marriage has seemed to restore me to my old self. I was getting hard, and if I had decided differently, I think I should have become very selfish.
Page 17 - To the Husband whose perfect love has been the best source of her insight and strength, this manuscript is given by his devoted wife, the writer.
Page 17 - To my dear husband, George Henry Lewes, I give the manuscript of a work which would never have been written but for the happiness which his love has conferred on my life.
Page 23 - ... mother, and whose wife, the mother of those children, was living almost within a stone's throw of her own home. Yet she wrote the most eloquent defence of marriage in our language, and vaunted its sacredness and quasi-indissolubility in terms which would have satisfied a Eoman Catholic. And, living thus, she was courted by the chief and most responsible men of the time, and by the best and most straitlaced women...
Page 17 - To my beloved husband, George Henry Lewes, I give this MS. of my third book, written in the sixth year of our life together, at Holly Lodge, South Field, Wandsworth, and finished 2ist March, 1860.
Page 3 - , } < no- 3 Istorical S Oi wi AN ESSAY BY CHARLES GORDON AMES It is better to stir a question without deciding it, than to decide it without...
Page 28 - The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.