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What a waste that the woman who wrote 'the best bred women are those whose minds are civilest' should have ---ed her time away scribbling nonsense and plunging ever deeper into obscurity and folly till the people crowded round her coach when she issued out.
spend frivolously and unwisely |
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I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the --- of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.
servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise |
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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and ---ing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides', and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.
attribute or credit to |
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Mary's mother--if that was her picture--may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and ---ed life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.
to cause to separate and go in different directions |
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It was a woman Edward Fitzgerald, I think, suggested who made the ballads and the folk-songs, crooning them to her children, ---ing her spinning with them, or the length of the winter's night.
influence by slyness |
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Or if that is not yet quite true, if the male is still the --- sex, it is certainly true that women no longer write novels solely.
marked by a ready flow of speech |
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While she has been doing all these things, you no doubt have been observing her failings and ---s and deciding what effect they have had on her opinions.
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual |
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Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and ---; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.
cleverly amusing in tone |
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And if anyone complains that prunes, even when ---ed by custard, are an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not), stringy as a miser's heart and exuding 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.
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
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She met that criticism as her temperament dictated, with docility and ---, or with anger and emphasis.
lack of self-confidence |
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His expression suggested that he was labouring under some emotion that made him jab his pen on the paper as if he were killing some --- insect as he wrote, but even when he had killed it that did not satisfy him; he must go on killing it; and even so, some cause for anger and irritation remained.
injurious to physical or mental health |
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Now and again words issue of pure poetry:
Nor will in fading silks compose, Faintly the --- rose.
-they are rightly praised by Mr Murry, and Pope, it is thought, remembered and appropriated those others:
Now the jonquille o'ercomes the feeble brain; We faint beneath the aromatic pain.
defying imitation; matchless |
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Emily Bronte should have written poetic plays; the overflow of George Eliot's --- mind should have spread itself when the creative impulse was spent upon history or biography.
large in capacity |
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For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that SHE shall be inferior as that HE shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the --- humble and devoted.
one praying humbly for something |
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But what is the state of mind that is most --- to the act of creation?
presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success |
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Hence, perhaps, the peculiar nature of woman in fiction; the astonishing extremes of her beauty and horror; her alternations between heavenly goodness and hellish --- -for so a lover would see her as his love rose or sank, was prosperous or unhappy.
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles |
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But she became ---, Mr Murry says.
move outward |
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Germaine Tailleferre one can only repeat Dr Johnson's --- concerning, a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music.
an authoritative declaration |
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Fear and hatred were almost gone, or traces of them showed only in a slight exaggeration of the joy of freedom, a tendency to the --- and satirical, rather than to the romantic, in her treatment of the other sex.
harsh or corrosive in tone |
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Lord Dudley, THE TIMES said when Lady Dudley died the other day, 'a man of cultivated taste and many accomplishments, was benevolent and ---, but whimsically despotic.
given or giving freely |
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I have ---ed the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions--women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
avoid (one's assigned duties) |
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She has told you how she reached the conclusion-the --- conclusion-that it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.
not fanciful or imaginative |
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And thus she made it impossible for me to roll out my --- phrases about 'elemental feelings', the 'common stuff of humanity', 'the depths of the human heart', and ail those other phrases which support us in our belief that, however clever we may be on top, we are very serious, very profound and very humane underneath.
full and loud and deep |
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Briefly, then, I told Miss Seton about the masons who had been all those years on the roof of the chapel, and about the kings and queens and nobles bearing sacks of gold and silver on their shoulders, which they shovelled into the earth; and then how the great financial ---s of our own time came and laid cheques and bonds, I suppose, where the others had laid ingots and rough lumps of gold.
a very wealthy or powerful businessman |
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After saying that Mr Browning went back to his rooms--and it is this sequel that endears him and makes him a human figure of some bulk and majesty--he went back to his rooms and found a stable-boy lying on the sofa--'a mere skeleton, his cheeks were cavernous and ---, his teeth were black, and he did not appear to have the full use of his limbs.
unhealthy looking |
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She ---s poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history.
spread or diffuse through |
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There were the business-like, with their little bags; there were the drifters rattling sticks upon area railings; there were --- characters to whom the streets serve for clubroom, hailing men in carts and giving information without being asked for it.
diffusing warmth and friendliness |
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They set two rats in cages side by side, and of the two one was ---, timid and small, and the other was glossy, bold and big.
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed |
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For certainly when I saw the couple get into the taxicab the mind felt as if, after being divided, it had come together again in a natural ---.
an occurrence that involves the production of a union |
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Moreover, it is equally useless to ask what might have happened if Mrs Seton and her mother and her mother before her had ---ed great wealth and laid it under the foundations of college and library, because, in the first place, to earn money was impossible for them, and in the second, had it been possible, the law denied them the right to possess what money they earned.
collect or gather |
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One seemed alone with an --- society.
of an obscure nature |
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The partridges, many and various, came with all their --- 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 succulent.
the group following and attending to some important person |
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The reason perhaps why we know so little of Shakespeare--compared with Donne or Ben Jonson or Milton-is that his grudges and spites and ---ies are hidden from us.
a feeling of intense dislike |
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One of them, it is true, George Eliot, escaped after much ---, but only to a secluded villa in St John's Wood.
an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event |
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It seemed to point to a river, which flowed past, invisibly, round the corner, down the street, and took people and ---ed them along, as the stream at Oxbridge had taken the undergraduate in his boat and the dead leaves.
a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself |
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Moreover, it was amusing enough to watch the congregation assembling, coming in and going out again, busying themselves at the door of the chapel like bees at the mouth of a ---.
a teeming multitude |
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As you know, its high domes and ---s can be seen, like a sailing-ship always voyaging never arriving, lit up at night and visible for miles, far away across the hills.
(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower |
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and --- at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
be about |
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Mrs Behn was a middle-class woman with all the --- virtues of humour, vitality and courage; a woman forced by the death of her husband and some unfortunate adventures of her own to make her living by her wits.
one of the common people |
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For it is a --- puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet.
lasting three seasons or more |
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The most --- visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind |
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For I wanted to see how Mary Carmichael set to work to catch those unrecorded gestures, those unsaid or half-said words, which form themselves, no more palpably than the shadows of moths on the ceiling, when women are alone, unlit by the --- and coloured light of the other sex.
changeable |
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But I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that are ---ed longest lived and most multitudinously eyed, to cope with all this.
the state of being held in high esteem and honor |
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Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different, because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise, not ---, but musical, exciting, which changed the value of the words themselves.
expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language |
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By feeling that one has some --- superiority--it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney--for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination--over other people.
not established by conditioning or learning |
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--- blossoms flowered in window-boxes.
tastelessly showy |
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But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most --- treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.
of the most contemptible kind |
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It was the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in window-panes like the beat of an excitable heart; when for some reason the beauty of the world revealed and yet soon to perish (here I pushed into the garden, for, unwisely, the door was left open and no beadles seemed about), the beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart ---.
into parts or pieces |
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Some of these books were, on the face of it, --- and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.
not serious in content or attitude or behavior |
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| relating to or dealing with the subject of --- (pertaining to a sense of the beautiful, pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.) |
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