Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...future might have in store...
Eyes coal-black, (might Love inspire...
These rosy dreams of what might...
...interesting; but she is deficient in the crowning quality of the novelist, - ability to throw a dramatic interest over all the characters, and make the reader feel that he is learning the story of real men and women. We know that the characters of "Middlemarch" are natural, that they might exist, but we think of them merely as the clever creations of George Eliot, - as belonging to fiction, and not to history. Yet we can conscientiously say that the book fulfils the condition which stamps it as an original work, - it deserves to be pondered as well as read...