“ One feels why it is often better for greatness to be dead, and to have got rid of the outward man. ”
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876). copy citation
| Author | George Eliot |
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| Source | Daniel Deronda |
| Topic | greatness feeling |
| Date | 1876 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7469/pg7469-images.html |
Context
“but how when he presented himself in trousers which were not what English feeling demanded about the knees?—and when the fire that showed itself in his glances and the movements of his head, as he looked round him with curiosity, was turned into comedy by a hat which ruled that mankind should have well-cropped hair and a staid demeanor, such, for example, as Mr. Arrowsmith's, whose nullity of face and perfect tailoring might pass everywhere without ridicule? One feels why it is often better for greatness to be dead, and to have got rid of the outward man.
Many present knew Klesmer, or knew of him; but they had only seen him on candle-light occasions when he appeared simply as a musician, and he had not yet that supreme, world-wide celebrity which makes an artist great to the most ordinary people by their knowledge of his great expensiveness.”
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