“Who can prove
Wit to be witty when with deeper ground
Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?”
George Eliot livro Scenes of Clerical Life
A College Breakfast-party, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
George Eliot livro Scenes of Clerical Life
"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 5
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
“Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.”
George Eliot livro Adam Bede
Adam Bede (1859)
George Eliot livro The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George Eliot livro Felix Holt, the Radical
Fonte: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Chapter 25 (at page 210)
“There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.”
George Eliot livro Adam Bede
Mrs Poyser
Adam Bede (1859)
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
George Eliot livro Romola
Volume III, Chapter IV
Romola (1863)
The face bent over him like silver night
In long-remembered summers; that calm light
Of days which shine in firmaments of thought,
That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)
O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
George Eliot livro The Mill on the Floss
Book VI, ch. iii
The Mill on the Floss (1860)