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# The matcher module is provided by the text_matcher package.
# This one uses the latest version from the submodule,
# installed with `pip install --editable .`.
from text_matcher.matcher import Text, Matcher
import json
from glob import glob
import pandas as pd
from IPython.display import clear_output
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import spacy
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [16, 6]
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nlp = spacy.load('en')
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# Load the data.
filenames = glob('../anthologies/*')
anthologies = [open(f).read() for f in filenames]
# Load Middlemarch
with open('../middlemarch.txt') as f:
rawMM = f.read()
mm = Text(rawMM, 'Middlemarch', nlp)
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labels = [filename.split('/')[2].split('.')[0] for filename in filenames]
labels
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['birthday-book', 'witty-middlemarch', 'a-moment']
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matches = {}
for i, article in enumerate(anthologies):
print('\r', 'Matching article %s of %s' % (i, len(anthologies)), end='')
articleText = Text(article, labels[i], nlp)
numMatches, locationsA, locationsB = \
Matcher(mm, articleText, threshold=2, cutoff=4).match()
matches[labels[i]] = [numMatches, locationsA, locationsB]
Matching article 0 of 316 total matches found.
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match 1:
Middlemarch: (123620, 123850) attention than he had done before. We mortals, men and women, devour disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide hurts--not to hurt others. CHAPTER VII. "Piacer e
birthday-book: (2735, 2964) mortals, men and women, devour many a dis appointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘ Oh, nothing !’ Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide hurt others. George Eliot, in ‘Middlemanh.’ .7anuary 3 ‘ Said
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Middlemarch: (474599, 474711) n having introduced the subject. Indeed, I am wrong altogeth Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failu e agree with you," said Will, determined to change the situation--"so much so that I have made up my mi
birthday-book: (11241, 11355) obliged to think of it. Felix, in ‘Felix Holt Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure Dorothea Brooke, in ‘Middlemareh.’ .‘7mmary 23 nothing like settling
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Middlemarch: (515893, 515962) a fervid agreeable contralto. Certainly, the exempla . Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her odditi y fine wine sustains a flavor of sk
birthday-book: (26267, 26336) little river a a Certainly, the exemplary Mrs Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities flavour of skin. very fine wine sustains
match 4:
Middlemarch: (589282, 589432) r know what she thought of a wedding journey to Ro . Cadwallader says it is nonsense, people going a long journey when they are married. She says they get tired to death of each other, and can't quarr l comfortably, as they would at home. And Lady Chettam sa
birthday-book: (28058, 28211) . Bartle Massey, in ‘Adam Bede.’ M s Cadwallader says is it_ nonsense, people going a long journey when they are married. She says they tired to death of each get other, and can’t quarr February I’ve noticed 2 7 comfortably, as they would at home. Cel
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Middlemarch: (748082, 748316) I think it would be better to write to him." She blushed and look e garden flowers look at us when we walk forth happily among them in the transcendent evening light: is there not a soul beyond utterance, half nymph, half child, in those delicate petals which glow and breathe about the centres of de p color? He touched her ear and a little b
birthday-book: (49659, 49893) e Floss.’ I I I I I A 19/7-! I I Rosamond blushed and looked at her lov e garden flowers look at us when we walk forth happily among them in the transcendent evening light : is there not a soul beyond utterance, half-nymph, half child, in those delicate petals which glow and breathe about the centres of de p colour? George Eliot, in ‘Middlemareh.’ The litt
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Middlemarch: (779627, 779716) o good a fellow to be easy under the sense of being ungratef n gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bon " answered Dorothea; "Mr. Casaubon has always avoided dwelli
birthday-book: (65857, 65946) d sky. George Eliot, in ‘Middlemareh.’ rll n gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bon ' George Eliot, in Middlemareh.’ The scornful nostr
match 7:
Middlemarch: (833173, 833302) n life is to be hampered by prejudices which I think ridiculo Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meani e accepted the position if I had not meant to make it useful and honorab
birthday-book: (72688, 72817) e sees to be best. Felix, in ‘Felix Ho ’ Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meani . Ladislaw, in ‘1lliddlemareh.’ “ 1-12 ” ~— J[ay - -* ~ 28 xlfay 29 Jfay I13 30 May 31 —— That true heav
match 8:
Middlemarch: (862160, 862581) his head a little, and spread his arms on the el 've got an opportunity again with the letting of the land, and carrying out a notion or two with improvements. It's a most uncommonly cramping thing, as I've often told Susan, to sit on horseback and look over the hedges at the wrong thing, and not be able to put your hand to it to make it right. What people do who go into politics I can't think: it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred a was seldom that Caleb volunteered so long a sp
birthday-book: (74215, 74639) ‘Daniel Deronda.’ §‘zme2 very happy, Mr Farebroth got an opportunity again with the letting of the land, and carrying out a notion or two with improvements. It’s a most uncommonly cramping thing, as I’ve often told Susan, to sit on horseback, and look over the hedges at the wrong thing, and not be able to put your hand to it to make it right. What people do who go into politics can’t think : it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred I acr . Caleb Garth, Yune in ‘Middlemareh.’ 3 The Gold
match 9:
Middlemarch: (877868, 878029) eep tone and grave shake of the head which always The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof." It was one of C b's quaintnesses, that in his difficulty of finding speech for his tho
birthday-book: (88151, 88294) s Poyser, in ‘Adam 7z/0 ’ llliddlemarelz. like Be e soul of man, when gets fairly rotten, will hear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof. Cal b Garth, in ‘Middlemareh.’ is There has been no great people without proc
match 10:
Middlemarch: (1252176, 1252387) as sublime, though not in the least knowing why. But his endurance was mingled with a elf-discontent which, if we know how to be candid, we shall confess to make more than half our bitterness under grievances, wife or husband included. It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumst ess strong against us. Lydgate was aware that his concessions to Rosa
birthday-book: (89624, 89834) Lydgate’s endurance was mingled with a self-d s content which, if we know how to be candid, we shall confess to make more than half our bitterness under It always re grievances, wife or husband included. mains true that if we had been greater, circumstan s strong against us. George Eliot, in ‘Middlemareh.’ 142—- Yu
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Middlemarch: (1777678, 1778098) d-- "Fred and Mary! are you ever coming in?--or may I eat you Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand ret val. Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beg
birthday-book: (93901, 94319) . George Eliot, in ‘Amos Barton.’ 148 Y y limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long waited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retriev . George Eliot, in ‘Middlemareh.' .‘}'uly It seems as if 17 them as aren’t wanted here are
match 12:
Middlemarch: (1793212, 1793422) ad no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably dif r the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, an st in unvisited
birthday-book: (117862, 118053) t fold of the heart. George Eliot, in ‘ The Mill on the Flo e growing good of the world is partly dependent and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and re n unhistoric acts ; in unvisited tombs. Geor
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match 1:
Middlemarch: (56, 707) cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa's passionate, ideal nature
witty-middlemarch: (90, 756) SAYINGS FROM < MIDDLEMARCH.' MIDDLEMARCH. George Eliot {in propria persona cares much to know the history of man, and how that mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors ? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with distinctively human hearts, already beating to a national idea ; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit begin ning. Theresa's passionate, ideal
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Middlemarch: (720, 1179) resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago
witty-middlemarch: (769, 1228) child-pilgrimage was a fit begin ning Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life : what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel, and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile sel<f-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order George Eliot {in propria persona). That Spanish
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Middlemarch: (1187, 1643) self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed
witty-middlemarch: (1282, 1738) order. 285 286 George Eliot {in propria persona Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant a;ction ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circum stance they tried to shape their thought
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Middlemarch: (1662, 2778) oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born
witty-middlemarch: (1758, 2877) dim lights and tangled circum stance tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement ; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formless ness ; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardour alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood ; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women : if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream fellowship with its own oaryfooted kind. Here and there is born a Saint
match 5:
Middlemarch: (1820, 2792) eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint
witty-middlemarch: (1919, 2891) struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formless ness later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardour alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood ; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women : if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship oaryfooted kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa
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Middlemarch: (2818, 3043) living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed. BOOK I. MISS BROOKE. CHAPTER I. "Since I can do no good
witty-middlemarch: (2916, 3184) finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oaryfooted kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and George Eliot {in propria persona). 287 sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centering in some long-recognisable deed. If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense
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Middlemarch: (298438, 299645) r Lydgate felt the growth of an intellectual passi t afraid of telling over and over again how a man comes to fall in love with a woman and be wedded to her, or else be fatally parted from her. 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 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? In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. And not seldom the catastrophe is bound up with the other passion, sung by the Troubadours. For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardor in generous unpaid to l cooled as imperceptibly as the ardor of other youthful lov
witty-middlemarch: (4453, 5663) muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow afraid of telling over and over again how a man comes to fall in love with a woman and be wedded to her, or else be fatally parted from her. 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 Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of ' makdom and fairnesse ' which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renun ciation of small desires ? In the story of this passion, too, the development varies : sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. And not seldom the catastrophe is wound up with the other passion, sung by the Troubadours. For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness ; for perhaps their ardour for generous unpaid toil cooled as im perceptibly as the ardour of other youthful
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Middlemarch: (298950, 299645) e wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciati f small desires? In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. And not seldom the catastrophe is bound up with the other passion, sung by the Troubadours. For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardor in generous unpaid to l cooled as imperceptibly as the ardor of other youthful lov
witty-middlemarch: (4967, 5663) industrious thought and patient renun ciation small desires ? In the story of this passion, too, the development varies : sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. And not seldom the catastrophe is wound up with the other passion, sung by the Troubadours. For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness ; for perhaps their ardour for generous unpaid toil cooled as im perceptibly as the ardour of other youthful
match 9:
Middlemarch: (299656, 300133) r ardor in generous unpaid toil cool s imperceptibly as the ardor of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glan Lydgate did not mean to be one of those failures, and there was the better ho
witty-middlemarch: (5677, 6198) generous unpaid toil cooled as im perceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing George Eliot (in propria persona). 289 in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change ! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly : you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions : or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance
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Middlemarch: (303606, 303783) m incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discover , know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates. But that Herschel, for example, who "broke the barrie e play a provincial church-organ, and give mus
witty-middlemarch: (11564, 11741) mind as patron saints, invisibly helping know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates. But that Herschel, for example, who ' broke the barriers heavens '—did he not once play a provincial church-organ
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Middlemarch: (303875, 304268) a provincial church-organ, and give music-lesso o stumbling pianists? Each of those Shining Ones had to walk on the earth among neighbors who perhaps thought much more of his gait and his garments than of anything which was to give him a title to everlasting fame: each of them had his little local personal history sprinkled with small temptations and sordid cares, which made the retarding friction of his course towards final companionsh e immortals. Lydgate was not blind to the dangers of such fricti
witty-middlemarch: (11832, 12228) play a provincial church-organ, and give musiclessons stumbling pianists ? Each of those Shining Ones had to walk on the earth among neighbours who perhaps thought much more of his gait and his gar ments than of anything which was to give him a title to everlasting fame : each of them had his little local personal history sprinkled with small temptations and sordid cares, which made the retarding friction of his course towards final companionship immor tals. 294 George Eliot (in propria
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Middlemarch: (407647, 407815) e brief narrow experience of her girlhood she was beholdi g Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from af s stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangene
witty-middlemarch: (13871, 14039) present quickening in the general pace of things Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar looked at Rome with the quicken ing power
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Middlemarch: (408681, 409247) h enigmatical costumes. To those who have looked at Rome with the quickeni g power of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the suppressed transitions which unite all contrasts, Rome may still be the spiritual centre and interpreter of the world. But let them conceive one more historical contrast: the gigantic broken revelations of that Imperial and Papal city thrust abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand-screen sort; a girl whose ardent nature turned all her small allowan f knowledge into principles, fusing her actions into their mou
witty-middlemarch: (14095, 14663) afar. To those who have looked at Rome with the quicken ing power of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the sup pressed transitions which unite all contrasts, Rome may still be the spiritual centre and interpreter of the world. But let them conceive one more historical contrast : the gigantic broken revelations of that Imperial and Papal city thrust abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand-screen sort ; a girl whose ardent nature turned all her small allowance know 296 George Eliot {in propria persona
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Middlemarch: (409266, 409766) t nature turned all her small allowance of knowled o principles, fusing her actions into their mould, and whose quick emotions gave the most abstract things the quality of a pleasure or a pain; a girl who had lately become a wife, and from the enthusiastic acceptance of untried duty found herself plunged in tumultuous preoccupation with her personal lot. The weight of unintelligible Rome might lie easily on bright nymphs to whom it formed a background for the brilliant picnic of Anglo-foreign society; but Dorothea had no such defence against de p impressions. Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colos
witty-middlemarch: (14726, 15227) George Eliot {in propria persona). ledge principles, fusing her actions into their mould, and whose quick emotions gave the most abstract things the quality of a pleasure or a pain ; a girl who had lately become a wife, and from the enthusiastic acceptance of untried duty found herself plunged in tumultuous preoccupation with her personal lot. The weight of unintelligible Rome might lie easily on bright nymphs to whom it formed a back ground for the brilliant picnic of Anglo-foreign society; but Dorothea had no such defence against deep m pressions. Ruins and basilicas, palaces
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Middlemarch: (409767, 410953) o-foreign society; but Dorothea had no such defence against de p impressions. Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check the flow of emotion. Forms both pale and glowing took possession of her young sense, and fixed themselves in her memory even when she was not thinking of them, preparing strange associations which remained through her after-years. Our moods are apt to bring with them images which succeed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter's, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intenti e attitudes and garments of the prophets and evangelists in the mosai
witty-middlemarch: (15231, 16416) society; but Dorothea had no such defence against deep im pressions. Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings ; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world : all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check the flow of emotion. Forms both pale and glowing took possession of her young sense, and fixed themselves in her memory even when she was not thinking of them, preparing strange associations which remained through her after-years. Our moods are apt to bring with them images which succeed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze ; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St Peter's, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention atti tudes and garments of the prophets and evangelists
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Middlemarch: (411023, 411149) d intention in the attitudes and garments of the prophets and evangelis e mosaics above, and the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the reti s inward amazement of Dorothea's was anything very exceptional: many sou
witty-middlemarch: (16530, 16656) evangelists in George Eliot {in propria persona mosaics above, and the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina true story which could not be told in parables where you might put a monkey
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Middlemarch: (414163, 414701) e crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had chang e pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. And it would be astonishing to find how soon the change is felt if we had no kindred changes to compare with it. To share lodgings with a brilliant dinn r-companion, or to see your favorite politician in the Ministry, may bri
witty-middlemarch: (24691, 25270) sea is not within sight— that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or George Eliot {in propria persona). 303 worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. And it would be astonishing to find how soon the change is felt if we had no kindred changes to compare with it. To share lodgings with a brilliant dinner com panion, or to see your favourite politician in the Ministry
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Middlemarch: (414728, 414919) o share lodgings with a brilliant dinner-compani r favorite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid: in these cases too we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantiti h comparisons might mislead, for no man was more incapable of flas
witty-middlemarch: (25298, 25491) lodgings with a brilliant dinner-com panion favourite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid : in these cases too we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities early months of marriage often are times of critical
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Middlemarch: (419142, 419319) e hope that if she knew more about them the world would be joyously illuminat s hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympat r subjects indeed Mr. Casaubon showed a tenacity of occupati
witty-middlemarch: (35851, 36028) delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy know intense joy without a strong bodily
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Middlemarch: (438231, 438385) s thought very fine. And I have gone about with just the same ignorance in Ro e comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. At first when I enter a room where the walls are covered with frescos, or with rare pictures, I fe a kind of awe--like a child prese
witty-middlemarch: (64631, 64785) changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. Dorothea.—Then it may be rescued and healed comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. At first when I enter a room where the walls are covered with frescoes, or with rare pictures, I feel kind of awe—like a child present at great ceremonies
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Middlemarch: (438408, 438886) e pictures, I feel a kind of awe--li a child present at great ceremonies where there are grand robes and processions; I feel myself in the presence of some higher life than my own. But when I begin to examine the pictures one by one the life goes out of them, or else is something violent and strange to me. It must be my own dulness. I am seeing so much all at once, and not understanding half of it. That always makes one feel stupid. It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to fe s fine--something like being blind, while people ta
witty-middlemarch: (64807, 65283) frescoes, or with rare pictures, I feel a kind child present at great ceremonies where there are grand robes and pro cessions ; I feel myself in the presence of some higher life than my own. But when I begin to examine the pictures one by one, the life goes out of them, or else is something violent and strange to me. It must be my own dulness. I am seeing so much all at once, and not understanding half of it. That always makes one feel stupid. It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel like being blind, while people talk of the sky
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Middlemarch: (438914, 439036) e told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fi g like being blind, while people talk of the sky." "Oh, there is a great deal in the feeling for art which must be acquir " said Will. (It was impossible now to doubt the directness of Doroth
witty-middlemarch: (65310, 65439) painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel like being blind, while people talk of the sky. Ladislaw.—Oh, there is a great deal in the feeling for art which must be acquired Art is an old lan guage with a great
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Middlemarch: (439213, 439523) d language with a great many artificial affected styl e chief pleasure one gets out of knowing them is the mere sense of knowing. I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. There is something in daubing a little one's self, and having an idea of the proce u mean perhaps to be a painter?" said Dorothea, with a n
witty-middlemarch: (65560, 65870) artificial affected styles, and Dorothea and Ladislaw chief pleasure one gets out of knowing them is the mere sense of knowing. I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely ; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. There is something in daub ing a little one's self, and having an idea of the process care about cameos. Dorothea.—No, frankly, I don't think them a great
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Middlemarch: (467297, 467360) " said Will, seating himself at some distance from her, and observing her while she clos e cases. "No, frankly, I don't think them a great object in li " said Dorothea "I fear you are a heretic about a
witty-middlemarch: (65914, 65986) self, and having an idea of the process. —0—. Ladislaw.—You seem not to care cameos. Dorothea.—No, frankly, I don't think them a great object in life fear you are a heretic about art gene rally
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Middlemarch: (467454, 467557) d Dorothea "I fear you are a heretic about art general e expected you to be very sensitive to the beautiful everywhere." "I suppose I am dull about many thin " said Dorothea, simply. "I should like to make li
witty-middlemarch: (66073, 66183) fear you are a heretic about art gene rally expected you to be very sensitive to the beautiful everywhere. Dorothea.—I suppose I am dull about many things like to make life beautiful—I mean every body's life
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Middlemarch: (467642, 467918) d like to make life beautiful--I mean everybo s life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it." "I call that the fanaticism of sympat " said Will, impetuously. "You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refineme
witty-middlemarch: (66242, 66524) things. I should like to make life beautiful—I mean every body life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoy ment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it. Ladislaw.—I call that the fanaticism of sympathy landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought
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Middlemarch: (467973, 468393) e shut out from it." "I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuous f landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy--when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you fe l delight--in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the wor
witty-middlemarch: (66552, 66967) think that most people are shut out from it. Ladislaw.—I call that the fanaticism of sympathy landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy—when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world ; that is being taken care of when you feel art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic
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Middlemarch: (468406, 468639) e world; that is being taken care of when you feel delig n art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrd d gone further than he intended, and checked himself. But Dorothea's thoug
witty-middlemarch: (66979, 67211) care of all the world ; that is being taken care of when you feel art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralising over misery ? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom Dorothea and Ladislaw. Dorothea.—Indeed you mistake me. I am not a sad melancholy
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Middlemarch: (468839, 469192) t taking just the same direction as his own, and she answered without any special emoti u mistake me. I am not a sad, melancholy creature. I am never unhappy long together. I am angry and naughty--not like Celia: I have a great outburst, and then all seems glorious again. I cannot help believing in glorious things in a blind sort of way. I should be quite willing to enjoy the art here, but there is so much that I don't know the reas a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculptu
witty-middlemarch: (67265, 67615) want to make your life a martyrdom. 334 Dorothea and Ladislaw mistake me. I am not a sad melancholy creature. I am never unhappy long to gether. I am angry and naughty — not like Celia : I have a great outburst, and then all seems glorious again. I cannot help believing in glorious things in a blind sort of way. I should be quite willing to enjoy the art here, but there is so much that I don't know the reason consecra tion of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting
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Middlemarch: (469240, 469765) o enjoy the art here, but there is so much that I don't know the reason of--so much that seems to me a consecrati f ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and sometimes even ridiculous. Here and there I see what takes me at once as noble--something that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill; but that makes it the greater pity that there is so little of the best kind among all that mass of things over which men have toiled so." "Of course there is always a great deal of poor work: the rarer things want that soil to gr "Oh dear," said Dorothea, taki
witty-middlemarch: (67663, 68196) art here, but there is so much that I don't know the reason of—so much that seems to me a consecra tion ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and sometimes even ridiculpus. Here and there I see what takes me at once as noble —something that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill ; but that makes it the greater pity that there is so little of the best kind among all that mass of things over which men have toiled so. Ladislaw.—Of course there is always a great deal of poor work : the rarer things want that soil to grow dear, I see it must be very difficult to do anything good. I have often felt since I have been in Rome
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Middlemarch: (469883, 470073) , taking up that thought into the chief current of her anxie y difficult to do anything good. I have often felt since I have been in Rome that most of our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wa Dorothea parted her lips again as if she were going to say more, but chang
witty-middlemarch: (68241, 68431) things want that soil to grow in. Dorothea.—O dear difficult to do anything good. I have often felt since I have been in Rome that most of our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wall difficult to be learned ; it seems as if people were worn out on the way
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Middlemarch: (476689, 476871) I wonder what your vocation will turn out to be: perhaps you will be a poet?" "That depen a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chor f emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneous
witty-middlemarch: (103234, 103416) voice, pray ? But her voice is much diviner than anything you have seen poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feel
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Middlemarch: (504029, 504573) h required the roundest word for perdition to give you any id a bad hand at swapping when you went to anybody but me, Vincy! Why, you never threw your leg across a finer horse than that chestnut, and you gave him for this brute. If you set him cantering, he goes on like twenty sawyers. I never heard but one worse roarer in my life, and that was a roan: it belonged to Pegwell, the corn-factor; he used to drive him in his gig seven years ago, and he wanted me to take him, but I said, 'Thank you, Peg, I don't deal in wind-instruments.' That was what I said. It went the round of the country, that jo e hell! the horse was a penny trumpet to that roar
witty-middlemarch: (104618, 105161) man who supports their claims; not the virtuous upholder bad hand at swapping when you went to anybody but me, Vincy. Why, you never threw your leg across a finer horse than that chestnut, and you gave him for this brute. If you set him cantering, he goes on like twenty sawyers. I never heard but one worse roarer in my life, and that was a roan : it belonged to Pegwell, the corn-factor ; he used to drive him in his gig seven years ago, and he wanted me to take him, but I said, ' Thank you, Peg, I don't deal in wind-instruments.' That was what I said. It went the round of the country, that joke Bambridge. Mr Standish.—A fine woman, Miss
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Middlemarch: (589282, 589444) r know what she thought of a wedding journey to Ro . Cadwallader says it is nonsense, people going a long journey when they are married. She says they get tired to death of each other, and can't quarrel comfortab t home. And Lady Chettam says she we
witty-middlemarch: (105911, 106072) sure, there should be a little devil in a woman. —0— Mrs Cadwallader says it is nonsense, people going a long journey when they are married. She says they get tired to death of each other, and can't quarrel comfortably Brooke. —0— I'n seen lots o' things
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Middlemarch: (1068866, 1069332) all silver in his pocket, and smiling affably. "Will it sup rs. Mawmsey, and enable her to bring up six children when I am no more? I put the question _fictiously_, knowing what must be the answer. Very well, sir. I ask you what, as a husband and a father, I am to do when gentlemen come to me and say, 'Do as you like, Mawmsey; but if you vote against us, I shall get my groceries elsewhere: when I sugar my liquor I like to feel that I am benefiting the country by maintaining tradesmen of the right color.' Those very w een spoken to me, sir, in the very chair where you are now sitting. I don't
witty-middlemarch: (106811, 107276) sir, put it in a family light. Will it support Mrs Mawmsey, and enable her to bring up six children when I am no more ? I put the question fictiously, knowing what must be the answer. Very well, sir. I ask you what, as a husband and a father, I am to do when gentlemen come to me and say, ' Do as you like, Mawmsey ; but if you vote against us, I shall get my groceries elsewhere : when I sugar my liquor I like to feel that I am benefiting the country by maintaining tradesmen of the right colour.' Those very words spoken to me, 362 Various Characters. sir, in the very chair where you are now sitting
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Middlemarch: (1069937, 1070127) r a gentleman who speaks in that honorable manner." "Well, you Mr. Mawmsey, you would find it the right thing to put yourself on our side. This Reform will touch everybody by-and-by--a thoroughly popular measure--a sort of A, B, C, you know, that must the rest can follow. I quite agree with you that you've got to
witty-middlemarch: (107830, 108018) honourable manner. , Mr Brooke.—Well, you know, Mr Mawmsey, you would find it the right thing to put yourself on our side. This Reform will touch everybody by-and-by— a thoroughly popular measure—a sort of A, B, C, you know, that must come follow. I quite agree with you that you've got to look at the thing
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Middlemarch: (1070154, 1070390) A, B, C, you know, that must come first before the can follow. I quite agree with you that you've got to look at the thing in a family light: but public spirit, now. We're all one family, you know--it's all one cupboard. Such a thing as a vote, now: why, it may help to make men's fort the Cape--there's no knowing what may be the effect of a vote," Mr. Br
witty-middlemarch: (108045, 108282) sort of A, B, C, you know, that must come follow. I quite agree with you that you've got to look at the thing in a family light : but public spirit, now. We're all one family, you know — it's all one cupboard. Such a thing as a vote, now : why, it may help to make men's fortunes knowing what may be the effect of a vote. Mr Mawmsey.—I beg
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Middlemarch: (1070613, 1071426) Mr. Mawmsey answered in a tone of decisive c "I beg your pardon, sir, but I can't afford that. When I give a vote I must know what I am doing; I must look to what will be the effects on my till and ledger, speaking respectfully. Prices, I'll admit, are what nobody can know the merits of; and the sudden falls after you've bought in currants, which are a goods that will not keep--I've never; myself seen into the ins and outs there; which is a rebuke to human pride. But as to one family, there's debtor and creditor, I hope; they're not going to reform that away; else I should vote for things staying as they are. Few men have less need to cry for change than I have, personally speaking--that is, for self and family. I am not one of those who have nothing to lose: I mean as to respectability both in parish and private business, and noways in res our honorable self and custom, which you was good enough to say you would not with
witty-middlemarch: (108362, 109201) fortunes at the Cape—there's no knowing what may be the effect of a vote. Mr beg your pardon, sir, but I can't afford that. When I give a vote I must know what I'm doing ; I must look to what will be the effects on my till and ledger, speaking respectfully. Prices, I'll admit, are what nobody can know the merits of; and the sudden falls after you've bought in currants, which are a goods that will not keep—I've never myself seen into the ins and outs there ; which is a rebuke to human pride. But as to one family, there's debtor and creditor, I hope ; they're not going to reform that away ; else I should vote for things staying as they are. Few men have less need to cry for change than Various Characters. 363 I have, personally speaking — that is, for self and family. I am not one of those who have nothing to lose : I mean as to respectability both in parish and private business, and noways in respect hon ourable self and custom, which you was good
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Middlemarch: (1071435, 1071586) in parish and private business, and noways in res our honorable self and custom, which you was good enough to say you would not withdraw from me, vote or no vote, while the article sent in was satisfac his conversation Mr. Mawmsey went up and boasted to his
witty-middlemarch: (109214, 109363) private business, and noways in respect of your hon ourable self and custom, which you was good enough to say you would not withdraw from me, vote or no vote, while the article sent in was satisfactory men who don't mind about being kicked blue if they can only get talked
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Middlemarch: (1098479, 1098713) u," said Fred, bluntly. "I don't know what to do, unless I can get at her fee You mean that you would be guided by that as to your going into the Church?" "If Mary said she would never have me I might as well go wrong in one way as another." "That is nonsense, Fred. Men outlive their love, but they don't out the consequences of their recklessness." "Not my sort of love: I have never been without lo
witty-middlemarch: (110550, 110800) Fred Vincy.—I don't know what to do, unless I can get at Mary's feeling. Mr mean that you would be guided by that as to your going into the Church ? Fred.—If Mary said she would never have me I might as well go wrong in one way as another. Mr Farebrother.—That is nonsense, Fred. Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive conse quences of their recklessness. Fred.—Not my sort of love
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Middlemarch: (1098740, 1098892) d. Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the conseque eir recklessness." "Not my sort of love: I have never been without loving Mary. If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden be hurt at my intrusion?" "No, I feel sure she will not. She resp
witty-middlemarch: (110828, 110983) outlive their love, but they don't outlive the conse quences recklessness. Fred.—Not my sort of love . I have never been without loving Mary. If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs Mr Brooke.—Dagley, my good fellow. Dagley.—Oh, ay, I'm a good
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Middlemarch: (1549575, 1549718) hat high hand, as there was no parson i' the country was forced to take Old Harry into his counsel, and Old Harry's been too many for him." "Ay, ay, he's a 'complice you can't send out o' the cou y," said Mr. Crabbe, the glazier, who gathered much
witty-middlemarch: (114840, 114991) harm to self and family, I should have found it out by this time. Mrs forced to take Old Harry into his counsel, and Old Harry's been too many for him. Mr Crabbe.—Ay, ay, he's a 'complice you can't send out o' the country Characters. 367 As to listening to what one lawyer says without asking
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Middlemarch: (1551658, 1551862) the motherless. Then by that, it's o' no use who your father and mo to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It's well known there's always two sides, if no more; else who'd go to law, I should like to s a poor tale, with all the law as there is up and down, if it's no use pro
witty-middlemarch: (115027, 115232) can't send out o' the country. Various Characters listening to what one lawyer says without asking another— I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr Dill. . It's well known there's always two sides, if no more ; else who'd go to law, I should like to know Dollop. Mr Jonas.—Why shouldn't they dig the man up, and have the Crowner
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Middlemarch: (1554891, 1555418) Mr. Jonas!" said Mrs Dollop, emphatic "I know what doctors are. They're a deal too cunning to be found out. And this Doctor Lydgate that's been for cutting up everybody before the breath was well out o' their body--it's plain enough what use he wanted to make o' looking into respectable people's insides. He knows drugs, you may be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they're swallowed nor after. Why, I've seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has brought more live children into the w i' Middlemarch--I say I've seen drops myself as made no difference whether they was in the g
witty-middlemarch: (115440, 115962) foul play they might find it out. Mrs Dollop.—Not they, Mr Jonas know what doctors are. They're a deal too cunning to be found out. And this Doctor Lydgate that's been for cutting up everybody before the breath was well out o' their body—it's plain enough what use he wanted to make o' looking into respectable people's insides. He knows drugs, you may be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they're swallowed nor after. Why, I've seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has brought more live children into the world seen drops myselt as made no difference whether they was in the glass
Matching article 2 of 35 total matches found.
match 1:
Middlemarch: (449682, 449755) a sad consciousness in his life which made as great a ne s born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supre e selves: Dorothea had early begun to emer
a-moment: (14157, 14230) insight, and insight often gives foreboding-The Mill on the Floss born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme End of Section 5. Continue to next section or go to Table
match 2:
Middlemarch: (602684, 602751) d trembled so much that the words seemed to be written in an unknown charact e answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other e e room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you fe
a-moment: (22917, 22984) Bede. 6. Honey's not sweet, commended as cathartic.-Spanish Gypsy answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end T'S a small joke sets men
match 3:
Middlemarch: (834712, 834927) a belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the beli y desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkne s narrower." "That is a beautiful mysticism--it is a--" "Please not to call it by any name," said Doroth
a-moment: (25481, 25695) morsel's as good as another when your mouth's out o' taste.-Adam TBede desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil-widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness Middlemarch. 30. A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights
match 4:
Middlemarch: (877868, 877945) eep tone and grave shake of the head which always The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poiso ous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the
a-moment: (36219, 36294) mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.-Amos TEarton soul of man when it gets fairly rotten will bear you all sorts of poisonous indebted to such a linking of events as makes a doubtful
In [27]:
df = pd.DataFrame(matches, index=['numMatches', 'Locations in A', 'Locations in B']).T
In [29]:
df
Out[29]:
numMatches
Locations in A
Locations in B
a-moment
4
[(449682, 449755), (602684, 602751), (834712, ...
[(14157, 14230), (22917, 22984), (25481, 25695...
birthday-book
12
[(123620, 123850), (474599, 474711), (515893, ...
[(2735, 2964), (11241, 11355), (26267, 26336),...
witty-middlemarch
44
[(56, 707), (720, 1179), (1187, 1643), (1662, ...
[(90, 756), (769, 1228), (1282, 1738), (1758, ...
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# Write output somewhere.
df.to_json('../txt/anthologies.json')
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