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  • Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

  • Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious thought and renunciation of small desires?

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

  • Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of “makdom and fairnesse” which must be wooed with industrious thought and renunciation of small desires?

    George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

  • Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old Trouba dour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires?

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires?

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • makdom and her fairnesse,” never weary of listening to the twanging of the old

    George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

  • "makdom and her fairnesse," never weary of listening to the twanging of the old Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of "makdom and fairnesse" which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires?

    Middlemarch 1871

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  • Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's 'makdom and her fairnesse'

    April 23, 2025