jackhutton · @jackhutton
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Piacer e popone       
Vuol la sua stagione.
– Italian Proverb

‘Pleasure and melons / Want the same weather.’

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot

* this is so fun.. :)

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jackhutton · @jackhutton
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“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts – not to hurt others.”

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot

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jackhutton · @jackhutton
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“…what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot

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jackhutton · @jackhutton
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“…what she had to say could wait, and came from her always with the same quiet, staccato evenness. When people talked with energy and emphasis she watched their faces and features merely. She never could understand how well-bred persons consented to sing and open their mouths in the ridiculous manner requisite for that vocal exercise.”

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot

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jackhutton · @jackhutton
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“…but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot

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Mirthless End · @endlessmirth
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Gog and Magog

"In the Syriac Alexander Legend dating to 629–630, Gog (Syriac: ܓܘܓ, gwg) and Magog (Syriac: ܡܓܘܓܵ, mgwg) appear as kings of Hunnish nations] Written by a based in , the Legend is considered the first work to connect the Gates with the idea that Gog and Magog are destined to play a role in the "

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_

#christian #mesopotamia #apocalypse #Middlemarch #georgeeliot #language #syriacaramaic

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Mirthless End · @endlessmirth
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Antoine Lavoisier "pushed for public education in the sciences. He founded two organizations, Lycée and Musée des Arts et Métiers, which were created to serve as educational tools for the public. Funded by the wealthy and noble, the regularly taught courses to the public beginning in 1793."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_

#lycee #Middlemarch #bookstodon #education #science #georgeeliot

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Sampietrino :verified: · @sampietrino
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seemoving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
– George Eliot

#quoteoftheday #georgeeliot

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Roman ALAN · @romanalanwrites
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Useless quote for 7 May:

"The thought that is bound up with our passion is as penetrative as air — everything is porous to it; bows, smiles, conversation, repartee, are mere honeycombs where such thoughts rushes freely, not always with a taste of honey."

~ George Eliott, 1876 (in "Daniel Deronda)

#uselessquote #georgeeliot

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AlexanderVI · @AlexanderVI
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All the ' books are now published under their real names, not the men's names they assumed in order to get published in the early 19th century.

Why are Mary Anne Evans' books still published under the name ?

#brontesisters #georgeeliot #bookstodon

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Tony Bertram · @tonybertram
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@theotherotherone @bookstodon Middlemarch took a month. I know it is great but I can't see me at 72 years of age tackling it again. Edward V11 apparently read it once a year. Kings must have had a lot of time on their hands then.

#georgeeliot #middlemarch

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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The Victorian Web · @victorianweb
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"Maggie Tulliver in the boat," a photo-etching from a drawing by F. S. Church in the Cabinet ed. of The Mill on the Flose: in "The Final Rescue," Maggie's black hair is streaming, and Tom sees her in the boat opposite him "with eyes of intense life looking out from a weary, beaten face" (654) victorianweb.org/authors/eliot

#georgeeliot #illustration

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tometaxu · @tometaxu
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"We can only have the highest happiness by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves."

-- George Eliot

#happiness #georgeeliot #buddhism #dharma #dhamma #dhammaiswhereyoufindit

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Sampietrino :verified: · @sampietrino
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In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
– George Eliot

#georgeeliot #quoteoftheday #28marzo

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ig 🏳️‍🌈 · @ignova
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tonight's read: like a lot of Victorian novels, Middlemarch turns into a bit of a slog after a while. but the first act has some of the funniest scenes i've ever read from this era--like this one of Dorothea getting increasingly irritated by the annoying male attention of Sir James.

"'You have your own opinion about everything, Miss Brooke, and it is always a good opinion.'

"What answer was possible to such stupid complimenting?"

#books #bookstodon #georgeeliot #reading

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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Miss Foxy Shelby · @FOxyShelby
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@gabylc @rmd Et moi une passion assumée pour les romans de vieilles filles anglaises (ou pas vieilles filles d’ailleurs)

#janeausten #bronte #georgeeliot #mrsgaskell #maryshelley

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Abibliophobia · @Abibliophobia
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Here’s my January reads - most were pretty good but my favorites were The Zoo and Claire of the Sea Light.

1. The Dutch House by
2. A World of Curiosities by
3. The Mill on the Floss by
4. Spook Street by
5. Claire of the Sea Light by
6. The Zoo by
7. Babel by
8. Bewilderment by
9. Sea of Tranquility by

#annpatchett #louisepenny #georgeeliot #mickherron #edwidgedanticat #christopherwilson #rfkuang #richardpowers #EmilyStJohnMandel #monthlywrapup #booktoot #bookstodon #books

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Robbo · @Robbo
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact”.
. . . . . Portrait copyright: National Gallery, London.

#georgeeliot #maryannevans #theimpressionsoftheophrastussuch #nineteenthcenturywriters #bookstodon

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