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Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and ---.
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In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
[1* 'It remains a strange and almost inexplicable fact that in Athena's city, where women were kept in almost Oriental suppression as odalisques or drudges, the stage should yet have produced figures like Clytemnestra and Cassandra Atossa and Antigone, Phedre and Medea, and all the other heroines who dominate play after play of the "---" Euripides.
a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular |
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They alone were deaf to that persistent voice, now grumbling, now patronizing, now domineering, now grieved, now shocked, now angry, now ---, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, adjuring them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which t...
resembling a uncle in kindness or indulgence |
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And there is the girl behind the counter too--I would as soon have her true history as the hundred and fiftieth life of Napoleon or seventieth study of Keats and his use of Miltonic inversion which old Professor Z and his like are now ---ing.
produce a literary work |
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And in that restless mood in which one takes books out and puts them back again without looking at them I began to --- an age to come of pure, of self-assertive virility, such as the letters of professors (take Sir Walter Raleigh's letters, for instance) seem to forebode, and the rulers of Italy have already brought into being.
form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
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She remembered that she had been starved of her proper due of experience--she had been made to --- in a parsonage mending stockings when she wanted to wander free over the world.
stand still |
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Mary's mother--if that was her picture--may have been a --- in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.
someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently |
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The ape is too distant to be ---.
marked by care and persistent effort |
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And how can we generate this --- quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly?
a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed |
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They alone were deaf to that persistent voice, now grumbling, now patronizing, now domineering, now grieved, now shocked, now angry, now avuncular, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, ---ing them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which t...
ask for or request earnestly |
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It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until--you know the little tug--the sudden --- of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out?
a rounded spherical form |
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But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by --- creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.
without material form or substance |
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So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an --- and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand, I settled down with a notebook and a pencil to make what I could of Mary Carmichael's first novel, LIFE'S ADVENTURE.
capable of relieving pain |
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the --- truth sometimes comes to the top.
sink below the surface; go under or as if under water |
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She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as --- to see the world as he was.
highly excited |
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I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the ---ies, the skepticism of the professional poet.
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage |
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple tree Whose. houghs are bent with thick-set fruit, My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a --- sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.
idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquility |
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And if anyone complains that prunes, even when mitigated by custard, are an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not), stringy as a miser's heart and ---ing a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth. for eighty years and yet not given to the poor, he should reflect that there are people whose charity embraces even the prune.
release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities |
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For women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are ---ed by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
spread or diffuse through |
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This heat took many forms; it showed itself in satire, in sentiment, in curiosity, in ---.
rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell |
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There are Jane Harrison's books on Greek archaeology; Vernon Lee's books on ---; Gertrude Bell's books on Persia.
(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) |
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I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a ---ing, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.
express strong disapproval of; deplore |
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She will still wear the --- old fetters of class on her feet.
cheap and shoddy |
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And (pardon me the thought) I thought, too, of the admirable smoke and drink and the deep armchairs and the pleasant carpets: of the urbanity, the ---, the dignity which are the offspring of luxury and privacy and space.
a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) |
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To begin with, always to be doing work that one did not wish to do, and to do it like a slave, flattering and ---, not always necessarily perhaps, but it seemed necessary and the stakes were too great to run risks; and then the thought of that one gift which it was death to hide--a small one but dear to the possessor--perishing and with it my self, my soul,--all this became like a rust eating away the bloom of the spring, destroying the tree at its heart.
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
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Of all the thousand women who wrote novels then, they alone entirely ignored the perpetual admonitions of the eternal --- -write this, think that.
someone who educates young people |
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Had Tolstoi lived at the Priory in seclusion with a married lady 'cut off from what is called the world', however ---ing the moral lesson, he could scarcely, I thought, have written WAR AND PEACE.
make understand |
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All these infinitely obscure lives remain to be recorded, I said, addressing Mary Carmichael as if she were present; and went on in thought through the streets of London feeling in imagination the pressure of dumbness, the accumulation of unrecorded life, whether from the women at the street corners with their arms akimbo, and the rings embedded in their fat swollen fingers, talking with a gesticulation like the swing of Shakespeare's words; or from the violet-sellers and match-sellers and o...
an ugly evil-looking old woman |
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Yet who shall say that even now 'the novel' (I give it inverted commas to mark my sense of the words' inadequacy), who shall say that even this most --- of all forms is rightly shaped for her use?
susceptible to being led or directed |
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I read on and discovered that these two young women were engaged in --- liver, which is, it seems, a cure for pernicious anaemia; although one of them was married and had--I think I am right in stating--two small children.
affectedly dainty or refined |
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The manager--a fat, looselipped man- ---ed.
a burst of deep loud hearty laughter |
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The partridges, many and various, came with all their retinue of sauces and salads, the sharp and the sweet, each in its order; their potatoes, thin as coins but not so hard; their sprouts, foliated as rosebuds but more ---.
full of juice |
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Nor did I at first understand that the ---s of a curious-looking object, in a cut-away coat and evening shirt, were aimed at me.
a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion |
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It poured itself out, higgledy-piggledy, in torrents of rhyme and prose, poetry and philosophy which stand ---ed in quartos and folios that nobody ever reads.
become gelatinous |
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At all events, a very --- survey of Shakespeare's work (similarly with Webster, though not with Marlowe or Jonson) suffices to reveal how this dominance, this initiative of women, persists from Rosalind to Lady Macbeth.
hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough |
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She had broken up Jane Austen's sentence, and thus given me no chance of pluming myself upon my --- taste, my fastidious ear.
without fault or error |
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For one can hardly fail to be impressed in Rome by the sense of unmitigated masculinity; and whatever the value of --- masculinity upon the state, one may question the effect of it upon the art of poetry.
not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier |
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One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the ---s of the speaker.
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual |
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At the thought of all those women working year after year and finding it hard to get two thousand pounds together, and as much as they could do to get thirty thousand pounds, we burst out in scorn at the --- poverty of our sex.
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure |
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One must have been something of a --- to say to oneself, Oh, but they can't buy literature too.
a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning |
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It is all half lights and profound shadows like those --- caves where one goes with a candle peering up and down, not knowing where one is stepping.
resembling a serpent in form |
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Or perhaps it is rather that Nature, in her most irrational mood, has traced in invisible ink on the walls of the mind a --- which these great artists confirm; a sketch which only needs to be held to the fire of genius to become visible.
a feeling of evil to come |
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He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is --- and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.
characterized by resonance
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Men, of course, are not snobs, I continued, carefully ---ing 'the arrant feminism' of Miss Rebecca West; but they appreciate with sympathy for the most part the efforts of a countess to write verse.
avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of |
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All the great novelists like Thackeray and Dickens and Balzac have written a natural prose, swift but not ---, expressive but not precious, taking their own tint without ceasing to be common property.
negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt |
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She suffered terribly from melancholy, which we can explain at least to some extent when we find her telling us how in the grip of it she would imagine:
My lines ---ed, and my employment thought An useless folly or presumptuous fault:
The employment, which was thus censured, was, as far as one can see, the harmless one of rambling about the fields and dreaming:
My hand delights to trace unusual things, And deviates from the known and common way, Nor will in fading silks compose, ...
express strong disapproval of |
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But when the web is pulled ---, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.
turned or twisted to one side |
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All that lies beneath the colleges down there, I said; but this college, where we are now sitting, what lies beneath its gallant red brick and the wild --- grasses of the garden?
not neatly combed |
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Believe me--and I have spent a great part of ten years in watching some three hundred and twenty elementary schools, we may --- of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born.'
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly |
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He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and ---; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.
able to absorb fluids |
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