| 单词 | George Meredith |
| 例句 | They also remind me of George Meredith’s dictum in his Essay on Comedy that laughter depends on quickness of perception: you realise how much film-makers once relied on the alertness of a mass audience. What I'm really watching: golden age Hollywood comedies 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z I’m reading George Meredith’s “Modern Love” right now. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Leaves us with a lingering puzzle on romantic love … George Meredith. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z After George Meredith, seven years her junior, proposed and was accepted, she regularly miscarried and only their boy Arthur lived to manhood. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z On vacation she would read her way through his vast library, devouring books by Charles Dickens, George Meredith and George Bernard Shaw. Carmen Callil, pioneering feminist publisher, dies at 84 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z At 2 in the morning, with my insomnia machine strapped to my head, I listen to a volunteer reading George Meredith’s “The Egoist” in a South Indian lilt. The Insomnia Machine 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z George Meredith and Walt Whitman became two of his great companions. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z An illuminating essay by Arthur Symons places George Meredith among the decadents, the murderers of their mother tongue, the men who shatter syntax to serve their artistic ends. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Of course it is no blasphemy to dispute my estimate; but what prospect is there of reversing the common verdict of George Eliot, George Meredith, Swinburne, and Rossetti? Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z But George Meredith has come to our assistance in two passages of his Essay on Comedy and the uses of the Comic Spirit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Can Dickens, Thackeray, and George Meredith be reduced to an academic schedule? How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z This hack-work exasperated him so much that he gradually came to despising the whole of English literature after the eighteenth century with the exception of the novels of George Meredith. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Besides these, I admire George Meredith's books more than any others, the one drawback being that when I have re-read one of his I cannot interest myself in anything else for a long time. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The manuscript had been read by Mr George Meredith, who asked the writer to call on him, and advised him not to print it, but to try another, with more plot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z It is therefore instructive to note that in no one of his nine clauses does humour bear the meaning it has for Thackeray or for George Meredith. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z George Meredith is as artificial in dialogue as he is in the use of phrases pure and simple, and yet he succeeds, in spite of defects, not by them. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z I have the honour to be, most faithfully yours, George Meredith. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The manuscript was submitted to a publishing firm, who, it is interesting to remember, handed it over to their professional reader, George Meredith. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The Morning Post article was a review by Mr. Gosse of the Letters of George Meredith. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The spirit of humour as described by George Meredith cannot be so briefly shown as in the rapid flash of the Frenchmen’s wit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z "One of the most brilliant of all George Meredith's novels." A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z There is one writer who ought to be added to the list, who received some of his earliest encouragement from Tennyson—George Meredith. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z "Before you begin, dear, tell me; tell me it is not Tolstoi or Ibsen you are going to read, nor yet George Meredith or Sarah Grand!" The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z Very interesting your note—in the matter of George Meredith. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z He has not, indeed, read it quite so often as he has Mr. George Meredith's Egoist, but still he is very fond of it. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Why does George Meredith, discussing comedy, declare that "five is dignity with a trailing robe; whereas one, or two, or three acts would be short skirts, and degrading." A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The point to be remembered is, as George Meredith once said, that “The verdict is with the observer.” Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The wit-traps so beloved by Restoration comedy writers, of which George Meredith speaks in his Essay on Comedy, are typical examples of pure wit. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Mr. George Meredith in his gorgeous lyrics strikes the nail too often and too hard, until he dints the panelling. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z She found nothing to praise or to attract her interest in the books of George Meredith; on the other hand, Coventry Patmore, with his customary amusing violence, voted her novels "sensational and improper." Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z He had a library—in numbers probably not one book for every hundred that Tennyson or George Meredith had: he was a philosopher, he read to himself. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The great novels of George Meredith range between 1859 and 1880, stories of characters deeply interesting who reveal themselves to us by flashes and trust to our inspiration to do the rest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Egoist a comedy in narrative by George Meredith. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Most of the ancient deities are still around—George Meredith and Walt Whitman and Tom Hardy and Sam Butler—and there is a long waiting list suggested by my friends. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Max Muller and George Meredith were near him now. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Take on the one hand dramatic poems like Swinburne's Locrine, written all in rhymed verse and partly in sonnets, or George Meredith's Modern Love, which is all in a form of sonnet. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z George Meredith has analysed and described her extraordinary success as a hostess, and the process by which she reduced too ardent admirers to “happy crust-munching devotees.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z George Meredith made his living, too, by reading manuscripts for a publisher! The Idyl of Twin Fires The Austrian system has conserved much of the peculiar tone of the army of 1848, of which English readers may obtain a good idea from George Meredith’s Vittoria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" There was George Meredith, in a Morris chair, with a rug over his knees, and sheets and sheets and sheets of manuscript over the rug. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z One incomparable novelist we have now in England, Mr George Meredith. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man A fuller edition than had before been possible, with an introduction by George Meredith, was edited in 1902 by Mrs Janet Ross. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Believe in her and you shall be saved—so runs the gospel of Petrarch, of Dante, of Browning, of George Meredith. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism Mr George Meredith’s “Old Chartist” exhibits far more of the temper of acceptance than does any poem by Matthew Arnold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" I don't remember what he called George Meredith, who left us guessing, I think, as some of his printed pages were likely to do. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z George Meredith's new novel is to be entitled, Won of the Conquerors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 The poet who has expressed most nearly the attitude of these Vagabonds towards Nature—more particularly that of Thoreau, Whitman, Borrow, and Jefferies—is Mr. George Meredith. The Vagabond in Literature The Shaving of Shagpat, by George Meredith, small sketch to illustrate, in pen-and-ink, contained in a letter to Frederick H. Evans, Esq. Aubrey Beardsley Have a brief paper on George Meredith as a poet and the various estimates of his poetry by literary critics; read from some of the best-known poems. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women His strength, George Meredith's strength, was in his perceptions, his appreciations; physically he was frail, or was frail then! London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z It was Fun to write jolly compositions and Fun to set proses out of George Meredith which bore no relation to classical thought or idiom and couldn't conceivably be translated into reasonable Latin or Greek. Years of Plenty Reflective writers like George Eliot or George Meredith are more often witty than humorous. The Vagabond in Literature George Meredith said that to a woman marriage should be a platform from which her soul may take a new flight. The American Country Girl The prince must prefer the lawyer, the politician, the general, and indeed, of late years what prince was found to patron George Meredith or Henry James? A Novelist on Novels And then George Meredith had been more than half his life a reader for publishers. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z The idea which should be there, as we saw, must come by way of the heart, whence, as George Meredith declares, all great thoughts come. How to See a Play He can tell a love story better than any one now living save the unapproachable George Meredith. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome One writer at least, Mr. George Meredith, had produced work of far deeper insight and higher imaginative power. Studies in Contemporary Biography George Meredith was not offered a peerage, even though some think that his name will live when those of captains and kings have melted into dust. A Novelist on Novels "Impossible," said I. "Sorry, but—" "Well, I 'm off to George Meredith's," said he, laying a post card on my writing table. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Not long ago, too, our greatest living novelist, George Meredith, created an immense sensation by his suggestion that marriage should become a temporary arrangement, with a minimum lease of, say, ten years. Modern marriage and how to bear it A taste that has to be led by steps from Owen Meredith to George Meredith, which could not recognize the worth of the latter before passing through the former, is no true taste. The So-called Human Race The conversations never beamed with humour like that of Scott, nor glittered with aphorisms like those of George Meredith. Studies in Contemporary Biography The incident is one that George Meredith should have immortalized in another of his "Tragic Comedians." Violence and the Labor Movement George Meredith once said the same in Diana of the Crossways, although he said it more epigrammatically. Ivory Apes and Peacocks He found himself thinking of George Meredith's idea of Ten Year Marriages.... The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman He was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green, and on his coffin were roses from George Meredith's garden, with the poet-novelist's message: "A true poet, one of the small band." The Hound of Heaven The author immediately became absorbed in the contemplation of this person, for he bore an extraordinary resemblance to George Meredith. An Ocean Tramp To which answer may be made again by Mr. Left in a communication he received from George Meredith, who had recently passed over. In the Heart of a Fool He does not idealise the sex, like George Meredith, nor yet does he describe the baseness of the Eternal Simpleton, as do so many French novelists. Ivory Apes and Peacocks A good many of George Sand’s people are thoroughly in love; and so are a good many of George Meredith’s. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Doesn't George Meredith say in one of his books—is it The Egoist?—that the light of the soul should burn upward? The Side Of The Angels A Novel And the thought of literature brought back George Meredith to mind again, only to be dismissed. An Ocean Tramp George Meredith is our only novelist who triumphs in this region. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) George Meredith’s style is chaos illumined by brilliant flashes of lightning. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies The realism of Jules and Edmond de Goncourt does not, to 29 be sure; but most assuredly the realism of George Meredith does. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Oh, Miss Wegstaffe," he continued vivaciously—how I hated that vivacity—"did you hear that new story about a wit and the young man who asked him to define George Meredith's position in literature? Melomaniacs Follow these instructions if you would like to have your own copy of this index and all the volumes of The Works Of George Meredith, on your hard disk. The Works Of George Meredith A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions George Meredith beats the late Laureate hollow in this respect. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He's a great stylist; everybody says he is, and so is George Meredith. Imaginary Interviews You will find far less shrinking from the commonplace in many passages of the romantic Fenimore Cooper than in the pages of George Meredith. A Manual of the Art of Fiction "George Meredith," he said, "I tried him once," and he shook his head. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate As yet there is no autobiography or biography of an egocentric personality so convincing as George Meredith's The Egoist. Introduction to the Science of Sociology George Meredith is treated with abundant respect, but he is wronged by being enrolled as a facile optimist, and "the strongest of the apostles of faith." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) One selection from George Meredith, to show the peculiar adaptation of the short sentence to express intensity of feeling, is given. English: Composition and Literature But other novelists, like George Meredith in “The Egoist,” have chosen to represent events that pass, for the most part, in one place, and in an exceedingly short stretch of time. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Mr. George Meredith lived his long life and died at last, on May 18, 1909, at his house, Flint Cottage, near Burford Bridge. Highways and Byways in Surrey And the same may be said, with the proper mutations, of George Meredith. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Meredith has expressed the same view in saying that "Adversity tests, it does not nourish us." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) It is a novel which, in style, so suggests George Meredith as to make one suspect that the author is a pupil of the older writer. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 George Meredith, and more especially Mr. Thomas Hardy, therefore devote a great deal of attention to setting as an influence on character. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Lower Charleswood, which lacked a celebrity, felt assured at last of its place in history and ceased to cast envious glances toward that coy hamlet of the hills which enshrined the cottage of George Meredith. The Orchard of Tears I have never found myself in the very slightest degree gêné—as the abonné was by Gautier's and as others are by the styles of Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Henry James—by Flaubert's style. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century If I had tried then to like Mr. George Meredith, I should not really have enjoyed him, and I should have missed the fun of "Robinson Crusoe." The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life In George Meredith’s first little book Tennyson was delighted by the ‘Love in a Valley,’ and he had a full appreciation of the great novelist all round. Old Familiar Faces It was employed always by George Eliot, and was selected almost always by George Meredith. A Manual of the Art of Fiction George Meredith, speaking of Romance, says: “The young who avoid that region escape the title of Fool at the cost of a Celestial crown.” Ladies-In-Waiting "Miss Willcocks shows the wit of Barrie in close alliance with the bold realism of Thomas Hardy and the philosophic touches of George Meredith." Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty But George Meredith never wrote a poem with that title. Love at Paddington George Meredith’s wonderful ‘Kiomi’ was a picture, I think, of the only Romany chi he knew; but genius such as his needs little straw for the making of bricks. Old Familiar Faces In fact, unless an author is gifted with the god-like wisdom of George Meredith, he is almost sure to break down in the effort to sustain the omniscient attitude consistently throughout a complicated novel. A Manual of the Art of Fiction George Meredith, Thomas Hardy and Henry James excepted, the great living novelists are Frenchmen. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays On the other side of the partition, George Meredith, a small, unimposing-looking man, sat at a desk marked: MR. The Penal Cluster "O man!"—the exhortation is Mr. George Meredith's, or would be if I could remember it precisely—"O man, amorously inclining, before all things be positive!" From a Cornish Window A New Edition Further, I jubilate that you are within decent distance of dear old George Meredith, whom I tenderly love and venerate. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson George Meredith may be a greater author than Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; but Pinero is of necessity more rigid in his mastery of structure. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Being an Ode in further "Contribution to the Song of French History," dedicated, without malice or permission to Mr. George Meredith. The Book of Humorous Verse And, in another way, he most definitely was not, if George Meredith's suspicions were correct. The Penal Cluster The greatest poem written on love during these fifty years—and we agree to accept love as the highest theme of lyrical poetry—is George Meredith's Love in the Valley. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Truly this journey of the King and the Prime Minister from Kew to London was what George Meredith calls a "supreme ironic procession, with laughter of gods in the background." A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III George Meredith, in a reference to this subject, declares that no man can think, and not think hopefully. Men in the Making I was reminded of this bit of ancient history when, some time ago, I read a criticism on George Meredith from the pen of Mr. George Moore. My Contemporaries In Fiction Our great novelist and poet George Meredith has immortalized her in his Tragic Comedians. Immortal Memories In the oft-quoted aphorism of George Meredith, "He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer is answered." Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Likewise some of the strong adjectives and nouns have been softened,—Jonahed, as George Meredith would have said. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads An answer may be suggested by pointing to Molière, and has been admirably set forth in Mr. George Meredith's essay on the 'Comic Spirit.' English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century All his life he was, as George Meredith says, 'Titanic rather than Olympian, a heaver of rocks, not a shaper'; and this fever of denunciation grew with advancing years. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies I heard the ring of George Meredith's words: "Attila, my Attila!" Everyman's Land She was the author of Letters from Egypt, a book to which George Meredith wrote an 'Introduction,' so much did he love the writer. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Close under Box Hill we glided; and Sir Lionel pointed out a little path leading up on the left to George Meredith's cottage. Set in Silver George Meredith is acknowledged by the best critics to be among the greatest English novelists of the last century; yet to the general reader he is only a name. Modern English Books of Power Eccentrics, too, there were in fact among the literary men of the day, even as there are in the fiction of Dickens, of Peacock, of George Meredith. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies In George Meredith's "Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History" there is a famous passage on Napoleon. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Mr. Herbert Trench has of recent years surrendered to theatrical management, but there is to his credit a substantial accomplishment of lyrical verse that George Meredith would have approved. Irish Plays and Playwrights After I'd finished my work I got out my George Meredith and read Modern Love. The Prairie Wife George Meredith with His Daughter and Grandchildren—From a Photograph Taken Shortly Before His DeathToList Meredith's life was that of a scholar; it contained few exciting episodes. Modern English Books of Power Till the man can say that with a sincere heart, why, to borrow a phrase from George Meredith, he may have passed Seraglio Point, but he hasn't rounded Cape Turk yet. Post-Prandial Philosophy It provided articles of timely interest in politics, literature, art and science; in its early volumes appeared serially Anthony Trollope's Belton Estate and Mr. George Meredith's Vittoria. Early Reviews of English Poets I should say that they showed insight into womanly ways of looking at things rather than a dramatic identification of himself with woman such as is George Meredith's. Irish Plays and Playwrights Then the telegrams from Kruger, Chamberlain, Dreyfus and George Meredith were read. Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are fuller collections of the Letters of Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, Dickens, the Brownings, Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and more recently the Letters of George Meredith, edited by his son. The Victorian Age in Literature Trollope, George Eliot, Stevenson, George Meredith, did not conquer the interest of the larger public until after many books and by gradual widening of the judgment of experts. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Sometimes the work is close—Mr. George Meredith, for instance, is suspected of a soft pencil—and always it is blunter than quill work and more terse. Certain Personal Matters In the pages of Thackeray and George Meredith he would have studied the West-End of Victorian days. Fifth Avenue We recognize this same dramatic tensity of hopeless conflict in many stories as well as plays; it is most powerful in three or four novels by George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays How touching is the dedication of Alfred Austin's latest volume to George Meredith! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 George Meredith has been a prolific writer for thirty years and Stevenson for twenty years; but their most ardent admirers, among whom I would be counted, can hardly claim for them a triumph so great. Studies in Early Victorian Literature George Meredith’s prayer for us, “more brain, O Lord, more brain!” we shall still need when “votes for women” has become an outworn slogan. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 One visitor, who was here when the woods were whispering blackly in autumn moonlight, thought them akin to George Meredith's "The Woods of Westermain"— Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned George Meredith was writing greatly about it thirty years ago. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 It allows us what George Meredith calls 'the rapture of the forward view.' Outspoken Essays As for George Meredith, who could hope to reproduce him? Reviews He hadn't any hope, he said, of moving her; but did I think that if he made her a present—say, the Collected Works of George Meredith, it would meet the case? The Belfry Pronounced by George Meredith the best examples of modern dialogue. The Indiscretion of the Duchess Thus, his biography is to a great extent a “showing-up” of George Meredith. The Art of Letters George Meredith was a reader once; so was Frank Norris; also E.V. Shandygaff She had in her hand a copy of the then quite new pocket edition "Poems" of George Meredith. Walking-Stick Papers The Arabian Nights has been the model for many literary attempts to produce the Oriental tale, of which the tales of George Meredith are notable examples. A Study of Fairy Tales George Meredith, the distinguished novelist, also, more recently, threw out the suggestion that marriages should be contracted for a term of years. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society George Meredith, as his friends used to tell one with amusement, was a vain man. The Art of Letters But he is handling a power which, as George Meredith says, "is a heaven-sent steeplechaser, and takes a flying leap of the ordinary barriers." Cambridge Essays on Education Just now she is wrestling with George Meredith; and she asks me to explain 'Modern Love' to her. Lady Connie The works of George Meredith are, as it were, obscure even when we know what they mean. Robert Browning George Meredith before anything else was a poet. The Author's Craft Lady Butcher’s charming Memoirs of George Meredith is admittedly written in reply to Mr. Ellis’s startling volume. The Art of Letters It is the same warning which George Meredith reiterated with increasing earnestness in his late poems. Cambridge Essays on Education This does not mean that they are wanting in emotional force or interest: merely, that in George Meredith's fiction men and women live the life of thought as it is acted upon by practical issues. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities If Browning and George Meredith were each describing the same act, they might both be obscure, but their obscurities would be entirely different. Robert Browning Egoist, a novel by George Meredith, much admired by R. L. Stevenson, who read and re-read it at least five times over. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge But "there is the noble Jew," as George Meredith writes somewhere, "as well as the bestial Gentile." The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections I can offer no opinion why Mr George Meredith committed them to paper; it is not narrative, it is not witty, nor is it sentimental, nor is it profound. Confessions of a Young Man To compare her gamut with that of George Eliot or George Meredith is to appreciate how much has happened since in social and individual evolution. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Here comes in the fundamental difference between Browning and such a writer as George Meredith, with whom the Philistine satirist would so often in the matter of complexity class him. Robert Browning You did more for yourself by being polite and honest than even George Meredith could have done for you. Father Payne George Meredith, speaking of Romance, says: "The young who avoid that region, escape the title of Fool at the cost of a Celestial Crown." The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Carlyle, Mr Robert Browning, and George Meredith are the three essentially northern writers; in them there is nothing of Latin sensuality and subtlety. Confessions of a Young Man Some such effect is made upon the critic by George Meredith, who so recently has closed his eyes to the shows of earth. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities It is, indeed, a remarkable book, combining, as it does, many of the characteristics of Sterne, Mackenzie, Borrow, and George Meredith. The Glories of Ireland "But surely," I said, "there are great writers like Carlyle and George Meredith, for instance, who have been difficult to understand." Father Payne He condemns Robert Browning for his obscurity and praises George Meredith for his rich complexity. The Silent Isle Such are the thoughts that come to me when I read Mr George Meredith. Confessions of a Young Man George Meredith is not, if we weigh words, the greatest English novelist to-day—for both Hardy and Stevenson are his superiors as artists; but he is the greatest man who has written fiction. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Emily Brontë, like George Meredith, saw a sensualist in every sentimentalist; and Isabella Linton was a little animal under her silken skin. The Three Brontës I can offer no opinion why Mr. George Meredith committed them to paper; it is not narrative, it is not witty, nor is it sentimental, nor is it profound. Confessions of a Young Man Hence even of Mr. George Meredith's fiction I make no effort to possess first editions; yet The Shaving of Shagpat is an exception. Gossip in a Library "Who rises from prayer a better man," says George Meredith, "his prayer is answered." The Teaching of Jesus He is always exclusively engaged with questions of conscience and character; like George Meredith, his only interest is in soul-growth. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities George Meredith had a natural love of maxims, and an instinct for them. Essays in Rebellion Such are the thoughts that come to me when I read Mr. George Meredith. Confessions of a Young Man Within the last ten years of his life we had the great pleasure of seeing tardy justice done at length to the genius of Mr. George Meredith. Gossip in a Library I also cannot help expressing my surprise that you have said nothing about the two novelists whom you are always reading, Balzac and George Meredith. Intentions It is the latter with George Meredith; and be it understood, his material is always realistic, it is his interpretation that is superbly idealistic. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities "Woman is the practical sex," said George Meredith, almost with over-emphasis, and certainly the saying was true of Florence Nightingale. Essays in Rebellion Carlyle, Mr. Robert Browning, and George Meredith are the three essentially northern writers; in them there is nothing of Latin sensuality and subtlety. Confessions of a Young Man If a final criticism of George Meredith existed, where in it would The Shaving of Shagpat find its place? Gossip in a Library A good many of George Sand's people are thoroughly in love; and so are a good many of George Meredith's. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Mr. George Meredith is the chief of those very few modern writers whose influence may be detected in his style. Robert Louis Stevenson George Meredith's father, again, who was too superior a person for the outfitting business he inherited, but never succeeded in being anything else, is another example of this group of fathers of genius. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene If any modern person nowadays were to dip into it, he would find it, perhaps, more obscure than George Meredith at his darkest. Love at Second Sight And among the subjects which rose and fell in that warm electric atmosphere, was the emergence of a new and commanding genius in George Meredith. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 The eighteenth-century smooth force and pungency of the main part of it ends in an anticipation of the burlesque energy of some of Mr. George Meredith's most characteristic verse. Poems of Coleridge The way to spiritual life," wrote George Meredith in one of his recently published letters, "lies in the complete unfolding of the creature, not in the nipping of his passions. Impressions and Comments Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson in Mr. George Meredith's novel might pass by at any moment, and seeing me in the stork-like attitude would exclaim, with equal admiration and a more literal exactitude, "He has a leg." Tremendous Trifles George Meredith made a dichotomy of his readers into "summer flies" and "swinish grunters." The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years George Meredith's poetry is still only the possession of a minority, even among those who form the poetic audience of a generation. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 Except for a lack of the elements which make for popularity, George Meredith would hold an unquestioned place in the highest rank of novelists. A History of English Literature George Meredith belonged to the early Victorian period which had encased its head in a huge bonnet and girdled its loins with a stiff crinoline. Impressions and Comments Even nowadays, and when they are veterans, Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Henley get ever and again a screed of abuse from some hot champion of Lower Division Civil Service prose. Mankind in the Making No less contemptuous of his readers than Browning was that other Victorian, so like him in many respects, George Meredith. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years George Meredith, J. M. Barrie, Paul Bourget, and Henry James--the men who at that time stood at the head of my own art--gave the book a welcome that I can never forget. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 A pregnant experiment towards something like this has already been seen—in George Meredith's magnificent set of Odes in Contribution to the Song of the French History. The Epic An Essay In addition to the chief novelists,—Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, and Kipling,—there were many other writers who produced one or more excellent works of fiction. Halleck's New English Literature Thus, Dickens is reflected in Charles Reade, Thackeray in Anthony Trollope and the Bront� sisters, and George Eliot's psychology finds artistic expression in George Meredith. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World George Meredith may cry, I take the hap Of all my deeds. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years —George Meredith Everybody on Bonanza knew that the Colonel had left off struggling to get out of his bed to go to work, had left off calling for his pardner. The Magnetic North The philosophy of his early life was what George Meredith has aptly termed the "philosophy of the Broad Grin." Mark Twain When he was twenty-five, he went to live for a short time at 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, in the western part of London, in the same house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and George Meredith. Halleck's New English Literature Can you imagine a true-born Briton following the flag of Swinburne, or throwing up a barricade with George Meredith? Without Prejudice George Meredith says a good thing in 'Diana of the Crossways': 'Before you can civilize a man, you must first de-barbarize him.' The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales You may not be a William Shakespeare or even a George Meredith, but you have written some mighty interesting stories. Kent Knowles: Quahaug That "disposition for hard hitting with a moral purpose to sanction it," which George Meredith pronounces the national disposition of British humour, is Mark Twain's unmistakable hereditament. Mark Twain To the east, in Surrey, is Burford Bridge near Dorking, where Keats wrote part of his Endymion, where George Meredith had his summer home, and where "the country of his poetry" is located. Halleck's New English Literature Having seen an advertisement of one of his books, and being pretty sure that the public has read none of them, he refers to him as "Mr. George Meredith, the well-known novelist." Not that it Matters Bergson's work is a magnificent attempt to show us how, in the words of George Meredith: "Men have come out of brutishness." Bergson and His Philosophy Readers acquainted with the works of George Meredith may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith has likened the functionings of Germanic humour to the heavy-footed antics of a dancing bear. Mark Twain A novel ought to be like a walk; George Meredith makes it into an obstacle race. The Upton Letters And, feeling that in either case his readers will be interested in the fellow, he says: "The guests included … Mr. George Meredith and many others." Not that it Matters Only a George Meredith can sustain a preface boasting of his heroine's wit throughout the book, but I will risk one example of Godfrey Webb's quickness. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One We should not now combine a Norse saga with an excerpt from a novel by George Meredith. Ulysses In George Meredith's wonderful little essay on the Comic Spirit, this view is rather remarkably confirmed. The Psychology of Beauty He deplored the obscurity of George Meredith, but added that he was an undoubted genius. The Upton Letters At the third stage the reporter knows at last who Mr. George Meredith is. Not that it Matters George Meredith was too much of a prima donna and was very deaf and uninterruptable when I knew him, but he was amazingly good even then. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One One has to turn to George Meredith's "The Egoist" to find such character dissection. Arms and the Man I have heard Mr. George Meredith improvise a sonnet, a Petrarchian sonnet, obedient to the rules, without pen and paper. Ballads in Blue China The characters do not talk as I think they would have talked, but as George Meredith would have talked under the given circumstances. The Upton Letters The eldest, a daughter, had been married some four or five years to Sir George Meredith, and this Miss Monsell was a dear friend of hers. Framley Parsonage Added to this he had what George Meredith said of him to me, "the feminine hint to perfection." Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One George Meredith's right—the cause of Comedy and the cause of Truth are really the same; and I, even I, have found tenants for the distressful Cissie Villa. A Room with a View In the fifth verse we shall recognise our old friend "Marriage on the ten-years system," which George Meredith suggested some years ago. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none But there are writers, like Browning and George Meredith, who seem to hold it a virtue to express simple thoughts obscurely. The Upton Letters Mr. Stevenson, on the other hand, had a free admiration of Mr. George Meredith. Adventures Among Books There are living critics who have all Mr. George Meredith's heroines and heroes and oddities at their finger ends, and yet forget that musical name, like the close of a rich hexameter, Clare Doria Forey. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody I knew I couldn't ever, with the best will in the world, write like Mr. George Meredith. And Even Now "Comic Cuts" deals with the difficulty wrongly, but it would need George Meredith at his best to deal with the difficulty rightly. What's Wrong with the World And now let us talk about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all minor matters until to-morrow.” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The provinces of George Sand and of Mr. George Meredith have been taken captive. Essays in Little George Meredith's style, especially in his poetry, was counted so bad that it—was not worth reading. Study of the King James Bible George Meredith said that the most difficult thing to write in fiction was dialogue. Hearts of Controversy In criticism he has done particularly fine work in his study of George Meredith and in his volume, "Attitudes and Avowals". The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets Mr. Kipling does not deal in them, nor Mr. George Meredith much; Mr. Haggard hardly gets beyond a baronet, and he wears chain mail in Central Africa, and tools with an axe. Essays in Little |
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