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“The Imitation of the Rose”

- mental health, infertility, “seeing” versus “looking”, routine, orderliness

“I rob you of no good chance. As to speaking, I hold it a crime to expose a man’s sin unless I’m clear it must be done to save the innocent. That is my way of thinking, Mr. Bulstrode…” p696

“Love”
- women, purpose, domestic life

“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?” p688

“And I can’t be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. It hurts my mind. I must beg you to seek another agent.” p695

“The Smallest Woman in the World”

- colonialism, dehumanisation, ownership

“he told himself that it was ten times harder for her than for him: he had a life away from home, and constant appeals to his activity on behalf of others.” p667

“He could not say “you are losing confoundedly, and are making everybody stare at you…” p673

“…that temptation in me - I am sure you know it. I am sure you know that the satisfaction of your affections stands in the way of mine.” p674

“Oh dear, yes; appearances have very little to do with happiness,” said Rosamund. p653

“Here was a case in which it could not be enough simply to disobey and be serenely, placidly obstinate….” p654

“…and make her indifferent to the absence of Will Ladislaw, towards whom she felt some resentment for his exaltation of Mrs. Casaubon.” p661

"It did not occur to him that Lydgate's marriage was not delightful." p640

"...if Fred wished her to invite Mary again she would make no objection, the children being so pleased with her." p643

"(Lydgate) knew as distinctly as possible that this was an offer of help to himself from Mr. Farebrother, and he could not bear it." p645

"The poor thing saw only that the world was not ordered to her liking..." p649

"But the voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful...to God is no access
Without mediator" XII, 235-40

"Thus laws and rites
Established, such delight hath God in men
Obedient to his will" 244-6

"Whose foul idolatries, and other faults
Heaped.., will so incense
God, as to leave them, and expose their land." 337-9

"thy punishment
He shall endure by coming in the flesh
To a reproachful life and cursed death" 404-6

"I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope." p633

""...in speaking to her so plainly; but still - it could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing." p633

"...joy in the impression that it really was herself whom Will loved and was renouncing..." p 634

"...plodding along like a poor devil seeking..." p636

"But God who oft descends to visit men
Unseen, and through their habitations walks" XII, 48-9

"From reason, and to servitude reduce
Man till then free" 89-90

"will this latter, as the former world,
Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last
Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw
His presence from among them, and avert
His holy eyes" 105-9

"for life
To noble and ignoble is more sweet
Untrained in arms" 220-2

"Bulstrode became aware that one source of magnificent profit was the easy reception of any goods offered without strict inquiry as to where they came from." p616

"The daughter had been found; only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away." p617

"..a stain which I can't help. My mother felt it...It ought to lie with a man's self that he is a gentleman." p624

"Adam, to behold
The end of all thy offspring, end so sad,
Depopulation; thee another flood" XI, 754-6

"for the earth shall bear
More than enough, that temperance may be tried" 804-5

"That he relents, not to blot out mankind,
And make a covenant never to destroy
The earth again by flood" 891-3

"the archangel paused
Betwixt the world destroyed and the world restored" XII, 2-3

"But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary." p603

"a dashing young lady she was - fine boarding school - fit for a lord's wife - only Archie Duncan threw it at her out of spite, because she would have nothing to do with him." p611

"...no curve in her face disturbed, and yet with an ineffable protest in her air against all people with unpleasant manners." p592

"The thought was in her mind that if she had known how Lydgate would behave, she would never have married him." p596

"...making her forfeit her property if she did marry that gentleman - and then- oh, I have no doubt the end will be thoroughly romantic." p600

"...if thou well observe
The rule of not too much, by temperance taught
In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence
Due nourishment, no gluttonous delight" XI, 530-3

"...but what thou liv'st
Live well" 553-4

"Much better seems this vision, and more hope
Of peaceful days portends...Judge not what is best
By pleasure" 599-604

"The only righteous in a world perverse,
And therefore hated" 701-2

"perfectly wearisome; but to most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable..." p583

"...what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? Expenditure - like ugliness and errors - becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it..." p589

"...all places else
Inhospitable appear and desolate..." XI, 305-6

"...his omnipresence fills
Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives" 336-7

"Of death, and many are the ways that lead
To his grim cave, all dismal" 468-9

"By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
In meats and drinks..." 472-3

"What misery the inabstinence of Eve
Shall bring on men..." 476-7

"but delayed to strike, though oft invoked" 492

"Forever, to remove him I decree,
And send him from the garden forth to till..." XI, 96-7

"...though sorrowing, yet in peace:
And on the east side of the garden..." 117-8

"But the field
To labour calls us now with sweat imposed,
Though after sleepless night; for see the morn,
All unconcerned with our unrest..." 171-4

"Lament not Eve, but patiently resign
What justly thou hast lost..." 287-8

"...whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl." p572

"She was knitting, and could either look at Fred or not, as she chose - always an advantage when one is bent on loading speech with salutary meaning.." p573

"you are too delightfully ridiculous. If you were not such a charming simpleton, what a temptation this would be to play the wicked coquette..." p579