"In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably."
— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Edinburgh and London
Publisher
William Blackwood and Son
Date
1871-2, 1874
Metaphor
"In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably."
Metaphor in Context
Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual. In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. She wondered how a man like Mr Casaubon would support such triviality. His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-grey hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the portrait of Locke. He had the spare form and the pale complexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red-whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" in HDIS Middlemarch
Citation
Eliot, George. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1874. First published Dec 1871-Dec 1872. Text from Chadwyck-Healey.
Date of Entry
03/23/2009
