 | Sally Shuttleworth - 1987 - 302 pages
...Eliot in her famous conversation with FWH Myers, when, taking "the words God, Immortality, Duty - [she] pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable...second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensing Law."17... | |
 | Open University - 1988 - 320 pages
...walked round the Fellows' Garden of Trinity College Cambridge with her one evening in May 1873: she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her...second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. (Quoted in Willey, 1969, p. 214) Murphy's general conclusions have been endorsed by other writers,... | |
 | Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 pages
...world whose transcendental sanctions had not receded but vanished. Of God, immortality, and duty she "pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable...second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third." Beyond equanimity, Lawrence exhibits almost complete indifference when Birkin heralds the new secularism... | |
 | Graham Chainey - 1995 - 388 pages
...Cambridge, I walked with her once in the Fellows' Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May; and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her...trumpet-calls of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty 7 In his first term (October 1 868) Dickens sent 'Harry' 'three dozen sherry, two dozen port, and three... | |
 | Thomas Kühn, Ursula Schaefer - 1996 - 382 pages
...stern and entirely secular conception of duty as she defined it in a conversation with FWH Myers: She, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her...pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable was iheßrst, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.14 It is doubtful,... | |
 | Paul Maixner - 1995 - 562 pages
...Cambridge at the crepuscular hour: taking as her text the three words . . . God, Immortality, Duty, - [she] pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable...and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.... I listened, and night fell; her grave, majestic countenance turned toward me like a sybil's in the... | |
 | Robert D. Purrington - 1997 - 276 pages
...Cambridge, I walked with her once in the Fellow's Garden of Trinity, on an evening of a rainy May; and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her...second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensing law.... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pages
...with her in the Fellows' Garden of Trinity College, Cambridge, records how she took the three great 'trumpet-calls of men, - the words God, Immortality,...pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable was thefirst, how unbelievable was Ihesecond, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third'. Hegel had... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. Friedrich Nietzsche, Joyous Wisdom, III (1910) 1K She, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her...second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. FWH Myers, 'George FJiot', Century Magazme (1881) 19 'There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2002 - 436 pages
...25 Moberley, Lear, p. 7. 26 See George Eliot's comment on 'the words, God, Immortality, Duty . . . How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable...second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third', quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (London, 1981), p. 201. 27 Moberley, Lear, p. 11. 28 Jameson,... | |
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Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May; and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used so often as the inspiring trumpet-calls of men, — the words God, Immortality, Duty, — pronounced,... 
