Kelly’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

“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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"...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

"You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honourable to you to be doing something else." p562

"..like the majority of young gentlemen, he wanted an occupation which should be free from disagreeables." p567

"...for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new." p547

"In the absence of any precise idea as to what railways were, public opinion in Frick was against them..." p554

"...and with the working-day world showing no eager need whatever of a young gentleman without capital and generally unskilled." p557