 Justice ; and a woman bringing him less than his due, she must be a creature of the slime ! This was the shadowy sentiment that made the wall of division between them. There was no other. Lord Ormont had struck to fragments that barrier of the conventional...  New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine - Page 2971894Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Meredith - 1894 - 374 pages
...repugnance felt by a woman who knows that under one man's eyes her character is naked and anatomized. Her character ? — her soul. He held it in hand and...individual arrests the general expansion to which we step, decivilizes more, and is more impious to the God in man, than temporary revelries of a licence that... | |
 | George Meredith - 1894 - 382 pages
...repugnance felt by a woman who knows that under one man's eyes her character is naked and anatomized. Her character? — her soul. He held it in hand and...individual arrests the general expansion to which we step, decivilizes more, and is more impious to the God in man, than temporary revelries of a licence that... | |
 | George Meredith - 1894 - 392 pages
...to his voice, following whither it went ; half was in air, higher than the swallow's, exalting hun. How is it he is the brother of women? They are sisters...individual arrests the general expansion to which we step, decivilizes more, and is more impious to the God in man, than temporary revelries of a licence that... | |
 | George Meredith - 1894 - 374 pages
...struck to fragments that barrier of the conventional oath and ceremonial union. He was unjust—he was Injustice. The weak may be wedded, they cannot...individual arrests the general expansion to which we step, decivilizes more, and is more impious to the God in man, than temporary revelries of a licence that... | |
 | Chap-book - 1896 - 294 pages
...individual occasionally Mr. Meredith and his Aminta to rebel against a blindly tyrannizing convention. " Laws are necessary instruments of the majority ; but...of the savage's old deity, sniffing bloodsacrifice. ' ' The case of immolation that Mr. Meredith studies is meant, despite some very special features,... | |
 | 1907 - 854 pages
...and immutable institution. The strongest words on the subject are in the last novel I have discussed: Lord Ormont had struck to fragments that barrier of...immolation of the naturally-constituted Individual The Nfltlomtl Review. arrests the general expansion to which we step, de-clylllzes more, and Is more... | |
 | George Meredith - 1899 - 446 pages
...woman apes Browny't. features and inherits her passion, but has forfeited her rights. Were she, nnder happiest conditions, to put her hand in his, shame...individual arrests the general expansion to which we step, decivilizes more, and is more impious to the God in man, than temporary revelries of a licence that... | |
 | 1899 - 502 pages
...fixed order possible. Laws are necessary instruments of the majority; but when they grind the same human being to dust for their maintenance, their enthronement...There cannot be a based society upon such conditions." Mr. Meredith upholds the woman who dares to face the consequences of a revolt from the conventionalities... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1905 - 326 pages
...to how he regards the situation. Near the end he has this significant passage : Postscript: 1899 " Laws are necessary instruments of the majority ; but...maintenance, their enthronement is the rule of the savage old deity, sniffing blood-sacrifice. There cannot be a based society upon such conditions. An... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 408 pages
...women? They are sisters for him because he is neither sentimentalist nor devourer. He will not natter to feed on them. The one he chooses, she will know...individual arrests the general expansion to which we step, decivilizes more, and is more impious to the God in man, than temporary revelries of a licence that... | |
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