Word: middlemarch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Admired Unread. As a sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...
...dissertations in Greek and Latin, have been awarded to Harry Wheatland Litchfield '07, for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Green's "Short History of the English People," and to Frederick Livesey '08, for a translation into Latin of a passage in George Eliot's Middlemarch...
...translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Green's "Short History of the English People, Chapter X, Section 2, from the words "A trivial riot" through the words "Free and Independent States", and the other for a translation into Latin of a passage in George Eliot's "Middlemarch", Chapter XIX, from the words, "Dorothea has learned to read the signs" through the words "generous trustfulness". These translations must be written by undergraduates of Harvard College in regular standing in 1906-07, and must be handed in not later than April...
...Dorothea Brooke's problem in Middlemarch and how she solved...
...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...