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Critical Miscellanies Vol 3: Essay 4: The Life of George Eliot

Critical Miscellanies Vol 3: Essay 4: The Life of George Eliot

Morley, John

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ISBN13: 9798587950764
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 29 2020
Pages: 36
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Language: English
Much biography, perhaps we might say most, is hard-ly above the level of that 'personal talk, ' to which Wordsworth sagely preferred long barren silence, the flapping of the flame of his cottage fire, and the under-song of the kettle on the hob. It would not, then, have much surprised us if George Eliot had insisted that her works should remain the only commemoration of her life. There be some who think that those who have enriched the world with great thoughts and fine creations, might best be content to rest unmarked 'where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, ' leaving as little work to the lit-erary executor, except of the purely crematory sort, as did Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, and some others whose names the world will not willingly let die. But this is a stoic's doctrine; the objector may easily retort that if it had been sternly acted on, we should have known very very little about Dr. Johnson, and nothing about Socrate

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