 ... melody which expresses a puerile state of culture — a dandling, canting, seesaw kind of stuff — the passion and thought of people without any breadth of horizon. There is a sort of self-satisfied folly about every phrase of such melody : no cries...  Daniel Deronda - Pahina 51isinulat ni/nina George Eliot - 1876Buong View - Tungkol sa aklat na ito
 | George Eliot - 1876 - 424 mga pahina
...about every phrase of such melody ; no cries of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sens& of the universal. It makes men small as they listen...the sudden width of horizon opened round her small musical performance. For a young lady desiring to lead, this first encounter in her campaign was startling.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 432 mga pahina
...cries of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sense of the universal. It makes men email as they listen to it. Sing now something larger. And...the sudden width of horizon opened round her small musical performance. For a young lady desiring to lead, this first encounter in her campaign was startling.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 432 mga pahina
...folly about every phrase of such melody ; no cries of deep, mysterious passion, — no conflict, — no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they...something larger. And I shall see. " "Oh, not now, — by and by, " said Gwendolen, with a sinking of heart at the sudden width of horizon opened round... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - 1902 - 486 mga pahina
...folly about every phrase of such melody; no cries of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. Sing now something larger." And it might just as well have been Wagner that he sat down to play as — ... a composition of his own,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 424 mga pahina
...folly about every phrase of such melody ; no cries of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they...something larger. And I shall see." " Oh, not now — by and by," said Gwendolen, with a sinking of heart at the sudden width of horizon opened round... | |
 | Martin Price - 1983 - 400 mga pahina
...people without any breadth of horizon ... no cries of deep, mysterious passion— no conflict—no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it" (5). Gwendolen's heart sinks at the space which suddenly opens around her confident drawing-room accomplishment.... | |
 | Barbara Hardy - 2000 - 258 mga pahina
...folly about every phrase of such melody: no cries of deep, mysterious passion — no conflict — no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they...a sinking of heart at the sudden width of horizon. . . . (ch. v) Klesmer's rebuke is the first affront to Gwendolen's selfsatisfaction, and her fear of... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer, Eugene Narmour, Ruth A. Solie - 494 mga pahina
...folly about every phrase of such melody: no cries of deep, mysterious passion— no conflict— no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. and she goes on with gentle satire to describe Klesmer 's own composition as "a fantasia called Freudvoll,... | |
 | Athena Vrettos - 1995 - 266 mga pahina
...Herr Klesmer criticizes the artistry of Gwendolen's hitherto admired singing voice she experiences "a sinking of heart at the sudden width of horizon opened round her small musical performance" (79). Later, after her marriage to Grandcourt, Gwendolen suffers from a sense... | |
 | Gail Marshall - 1998 - 268 mga pahina
...self-satisfied folly about every phrase of such melody; no cries of deep, mysterious passion - no conflict - no sense of the universal. It makes men small as they listen to it. (vol. i, pp. 67-8) Wounded by this unwonted criticism, Gwendolen has to find a means both of regaining... | |
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