“ No man must presume to think that he can paint your ideal. ”
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation
Author | George Eliot |
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Source | Middlemarch |
Topic | painting ideals |
Date | 1872 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/145/145-h/145-h.htm |
Context
“they change from moment to moment.—This woman whom you have just seen, for example: how would you paint her voice, pray? But her voice is much diviner than anything you have seen of her.”
“I see, I see. You are jealous. No man must presume to think that he can paint your ideal. This is serious, my friend! Your great-aunt! ‘Der Neffe als Onkel’ in a tragic sense—ungeheuer!”
“You and I shall quarrel, Naumann, if you call that lady my aunt again.”
“How is she to be called then?””
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