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 - Strana 2021862Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - Počet stránok 390
...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 - 1859 - Počet stránok 520
...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 - Počet stránok 390
...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 - 1859 - Počet stránok 468
...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 - 1859 - Počet stránok 524
...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 - Počet stránok 486
...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 - 1873 - Počet stránok 444
...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 - Počet stránok 460
...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 - 1877 - Počet stránok 326
...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 - Počet stránok 504
...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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