 | George Eliot - 1876 - 214 Seiten
...the corpses of their blooming sons, ci and girls forget all vanity to make lint and band- • ages which may serve for the shattered limbs of " / their...of lipworship and lip-resignation became visible, ac- A cording to the imagery of the Hebrew poet, making the flames his chariot and riding on the wings... | |
 | George Eliot - 1876 - 444 Seiten
...fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the...it is as if the Invisible Power that has been the objeet of lip-worship and lip-resignation beeame visible, according to tho imagery of the Hebrew poet,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 Seiten
...fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the...if the Invisible Power that has been the object of lip -worship and lip -resignation became visible, according to the imagery of the Hebrew poet, making... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 482 Seiten
...fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the...according to the imagery of the Hebrew poet, making the names his chariot, and riding on the wings of the wind, till the mountains smoke and the plains shudder... | |
 | Alison Booth - 1992 - 340 Seiten
...Egyptian mummies are dangerous to one who would reconstitute Judaism. sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the...flames his chariot and riding on the wings of the wind. . . . Often the good cause seems to lie prostrate . . . the martyrs live reviled, they die, and no... | |
 | Evelyne Ender - 1995 - 324 Seiten
...fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands. (747-48) This is how the narrator of Eliot's novel, shifting his/her stance, reconsiders the heroine's... | |
 | Gerlinde Röder-Bolton - 1998 - 304 Seiten
...it a sense of the Apocalypse. This again serves to reduce Gwendolen and her loss to insignificance: Then it is as if the Invisible Power that has been...plains shudder under the rolling fiery visitation. (IIl, 398-99) In this image the deadness of the lip-service of organized religion as practiced in Gwendolen's... | |
 | Peter K. Garrett - 2003 - 260 Seiten
...army or the dire clash of civil war," historical cataclysms that seem like eruptions of divine force. "Then it is as if the Invisible Power that has been...plains shudder under the rolling fiery visitation" (875). These are the sublime, prophetic tones associated with Mordecai, and our understanding of Deronda's... | |
 | Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett, Pamela Thurschwell - 2004 - 336 Seiten
...fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the...plains shudder under the rolling fiery visitation. (774) The imagery of this passage shows the necessity for a kind of world-historical sympathetic permeability... | |
 | Catherine Gallagher - 2006 - 236 Seiten
...Gwendolen learns of Daniel's plans, explicitly (if bathetically) imitating the Psalmist: "Then is it as if the Invisible Power that has been the object...the imagery of the Hebrew poet, making the flames of his chariot and riding the wings of the wind, till the mountains smoke and the plains shudder under... | |
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... grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands. 
