 | Richard Morris - English language - 1876 - 144 pages
...the scene of Silas Marner is in North Warwickshire ; but here, and in all my other presentations of life except Adam Bede, it has been my intention to...vocabulary of the drawing-room and the newspaper." This last sentence may be commended alike to those who write in any dialect and to those superfine... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...North Warwickshire ; but here, and in all my other presentations of life except Adam Bcde, it lias been my intention to give the general physiognomy...public ; still one is not bound to respect the lazy obtuscncss or snobbish ignorance of people who do not care to know more of their native tongue than... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 416 pages
...the scene of Silas Marner is in North Wanvickshire ; but here, and in all my other presentations of life except Adam Bede, it has been my intention to...vocabulary of the drawing-room and the newspaper." This last sentence may be commended alike to those who write in any dialect and to those superfine... | |
 | William Edward Armytage Axon - English essays - 1888 - 358 pages
...Marner is in North Warwickshire ; but here, and in all my other presentations of life except Adam Beds, it has been my intention to give the general physiognomy...vocabulary of the drawingroom and the newspaper." This last sentence may be commended alike to those who write in any dialect and to those superfine... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - English language - 1890 - 716 pages
...the scene of Silas Marner is in North Warwickshire ; but here, and in all my other presentations of life except Adam Bede, it has been my intention to...vocabulary of the drawing-room and the newspaper." This last sentence may be commended alike to those who write in any dialect and to those superfine... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1904 - 294 pages
...intention to give the general physiognomy rather than a close portraiture of the provincial speech, as I heard it, in the Midland or Mercian region. It is a just demand that art should keep clear of such specialties as would make it a puzzle for the larger part of the public." Mr. Riley tells me that this... | |
 | Renate Mace - Dialect literature, English - 1987 - 306 pages
...artistic duty of being generally intelligible. But for that check, I should have given a stronger local colour to the dialogue in "Adam Bede", which is modelled...tongue than the vocabulary of the drawing-room and the newspaper.7 Nicht nur mögliche sprachliche Verständnisschwierigkeiten, sondern auch die Ignoranz... | |
 | Tony Crowley - Language and culture - 1996 - 228 pages
...popular and respectable. George Eliot, for example, wrote to the secretary of the EDS and asserted: It is a just demand that art should keep clear of...of their native tongue than the vocabulary of the drawing room and the newspaper. (Eliot 1877: viii) Such a defence of this area of study has, implicitly,... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 2004 - 744 pages
...intention to give the general physiognomy rather than a close portraiture of the provincial speech as I heard it in the Midland or Mercian region. It is a...vocabulary of the drawing-room and the newspaper" (Selections from George Eliot's Letters, 398). Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (?5 19-439? BCE), a mythical... | |
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Adam Bede, it has been my intention to give the general physiognomy rather than a close portraiture of the provincial speech as I have heard it in the Midland or Mercian region. It is a just demand that art should keep clear of such specialities as would... 