V 12 Impressions Of Theophrastus Such Essays Leaves From A Notebook

Author : George Eliot
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ISBN 13 : 9781484943687
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Impressions of Theophrastus Such written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who remember the great influence over her life exerted by George Henry Lewes may be surprised at the conservatism, both of style and thought, which controls, if it does not characterize, her writings as an essayist. In "The Impressions of Theophrastus Such," as in the "Leaves from a Note Book," and in her essays contributed to English reviews, she shows that unconsciously she is at bottom a "Low-Church" Englishwoman, governed by all the virtues which belong to good women in England through the heredity of a hundred generations of clean and virtuous lives. In the literary history of England and of civilization she belongs to a period of storm and stress when great contending forces met in a struggle which seemed full of promise or of menace, as those who viewed it were inspired by courage or depressed by timidity. * * * CONTENTS IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH I. Looking Inward 1 II. Looking Backward 12 III. How We Encourage Research 26 IV. A Man Surprised At His Originality 39 V. A Too Deferential Man 47 VI. Only Temper 55 VII. A Political Molecule 62 VIII. The Watch-Dog of Knowledge 66 IX. A Half-Breed 73 X. Debasing The Moral Currency 80 XI. The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb 87 XII. "So Young!" 98XIII. How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them 103 XIV. The Too Ready Writer 111 XV. Diseases of Small Authorship 119 XVI. Moral Swindlers 128 XVII. Shadows of the Coming Race 136 XVIII. The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep! 142 ESSAYS Preface to the Essays 165\ Worldliness And Other-Worldliness: The Poet Young 167 German Wit: Henry Heine 223 Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming 267 The Influence Of Rationalism: Lecky's History 300 The Grammar Of Ornament. 318 The Natural History Of German Life 321 Three Months In Weimar 357 Address To Working Men, By Felix Holt. 376 LEAVES FROM A NOTE-BOOK Authorship 392 Judgments On Authors 398 Story-telling 401 Historic Imagination 404 Value In Originality 406 To The Prosaic All Things Are Prosaic 407 "Dear Religious Love" 408 We Make Our Own Precedents 409 Birth Of Tolerance 410 Felix Qui Non Potuit 411 Divine Grace A Real Emanation 412 A "Fine Excess" Feeling Is Energy 413