George Eliot's Silas MarnerLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 223 strán (strany) |
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Aaron Adam Bede Batherley better Bryce called CHAPTER child church cottage Crackenthorp dance Daniel Deronda dark doctor Dolly Dolly's door Dunsey Dunstan English Eppie Eppie's everything eyes face farrier father feeling felt folks George Eliot's Godfrey Cass Godfrey's gold gone guineas hand head heart horse Jem Rodney keep Kimble knew Lammeter's landlord Lantern Yard live look loom Macey married Master Marner Middlemarch mind Miss Gunns Miss Nancy morning mother Nancy Lammeter Nancy's neighbours never night Osgood parish parlour perhaps pillion poor pretty Priscilla Rainbow Raveloe Red House round Scenes of Clerical seemed sense Silas Marner Silas's speak Squire Cass's Squire's Stone-pits story strange talk tell there's things thought tinder-box tion Tookey turned village walked weaver weaving wife Wildfire Winthrop woman word young
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Strana 25 - So, year after year, Silas Marner had lived in this solitude, his guineas rising in the iron pot, and his life narrowing and hardening itself more and more into a mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction that had no relation to any other being.
Strana 159 - The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his loom and the repetition of his web ; but Eppie called him away from his weaving, and made him think all its pauses a holiday, re-awakening his senses with her fresh life, even to the old winter-flies that came crawling forth in the early spring sunshine, and warming him into joy because she had joy.
Strana xviii - But one morning as I was lying in bed, thinking what should be the subject of my first story, my thoughts merged themselves into a dreamy doze, and I imagined myself writing a story of which the title was —"The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton.
Strana 18 - Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.
Strana xxii - It came to me first of all quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back ; but as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment.
Strana xix - But his prevalent impression was, that though I could hardly write a poor novel, my effort would want the highest quality of fiction, dramatic presentation. He used to say, ' You have wit, description, and philosophy — those go a good way towards the production of a novel. It is worth while for you to try the experiment.
Strana 179 - ... this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all as we've got to do is to trusten, Master Marner to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o...
Strana 20 - Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
Strana xix - he had no longer any doubt about my ability to carry out the plan. The scene at Cross Farm, he said, satisfied him that I had the very element he had been doubtful about, — it was clear I could write good dialogue. There still remained the question whether I could command any pathos ; and that was to be decided by the mode in which I treated Milly's death. One night G. went to town on purpose to leave me a quiet evening for writing it. I wrote the chapter from the news brought by the shepherd...