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" ... clenching proof that we are peculiar instruments of the divine intention. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. At this moment Mr. Bulstrode felt as if the sunshine were all one with that of far-off evenings... "
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Page 346
by George Eliot - 1894
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Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...bailiff in the rick-yard. ! sinning is but a measure for the depth of forgiveness, and a clinching proof that we are peculiar instruments of the divine...have had that service of exhortation in prospect now. Tha texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. His brief reverie was Mr....
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Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...zone of dependence in growth and decay ; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. When Fred Vincy was riding home on winter evenings he had a pleasant vision beforehand of the bright...
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...dependence in growth and decay ; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. — o — The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. — o — When Fred Vincy was riding home on winter evenings he had a pleasant vision beforehand of...
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Wit & Wisdom

George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...satisfaction when th3 depth of our sinning is but a measure for the depth of forgiveness, and a clinching proof that we are peculiar instruments of the divine...the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our ciders are hopeful about...
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The Works of George Eliot, Volume 13

George Eliot - 1900 - 334 pages
...rick-yard. Mr. Bulstrode was conscious of being in a good spiritual frame and more than usually serene, under the influence of his innocent recreation. He...would willingly have had that service of exhortation hi prospect now. The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. His brief...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...some time in hi« life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing.— FA Ihtrivage. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. — Oeorge Eliot. There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...some time in hi« life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing. — FA Dunnage. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.— George Eliot. There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living....
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Psychology of Education

James Welton - Educational psychology - 1911 - 554 pages
...mental preoccupation and on my emotional tone. What I can recall at one time I cannot recall at another. "The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama." x 1 George Eliot : Middkmarch, ch. 53. Moreover, as my interests differ from those of others, so the...
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The Wisdom of George Eliot: Wit and Reflection from the Writings of the ...

George Eliot - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 130 pages
...—DD Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. —SM The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. —MM The terror of being judged sharpens memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited...
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Literature and the Visual Media, Volume 58

David Seed, English Association - Literary Collections - 2005 - 220 pages
...is reacquainted with Raffles, the working of his memory is described as akin to that of a diorama: He was doctrinally convinced that there was a total...man and used to go out preaching beyond Highbury. (Eliot 1994: 521-2) Eliot uses the moving image of the diorama to emphasise Bulstrode's equivocal relationship...
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