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George Meredith war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Lyriker.

✵ 12. Februar 1828 – 18. Mai 1909
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„Küsse vergehen, Kochkunst bleibt bestehen.“

Richard Feverels Prüfung

„Wer sich als besserer Mensch vom Gebet erhebt, der ist erhört.“

Richard Feverels Prüfung

„Wenn alle Künste untergeh'n, die holde Kochkunst bleibt bestehen.“

Richard Feverels Prüfung

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“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

George Meredith buch Diana of the Crossways

Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
Quelle: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

George Meredith buch The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Quelle: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.

“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”

Quelle: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 33.

“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

Quelle: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 7.

“In…the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”

Quelle: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 14.

“Kissing don't last; cookery do!”

Quelle: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 28.

“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”

Ch. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=n2g-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Who+rises+from+prayer+a+better+man+his+prayer+is+answered%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859)

“In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.”

St. 43.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“Speech is the small change of Silence.”

Quelle: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 34.

“And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.”

St. 12.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“See ye not, Courtesy
Is the true Alchemy,
Turning to gold all it touches and tries?”

The Song of Courtesy https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1381/1381-h/1381-h.htm#page129, IV (1859).

“The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.”

St. 25.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!”

A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-fair-ladies-in-revolt/ st. 16 (1883).

“"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."”

Quelle: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 16.

“I've studied men from my topsy-turvy
Close, and I reckon, rather true.
Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy;
Most, a dash between the two.”

Juggling Jerry http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6583&poem=26458, st. 7 (1859).

“What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.”

Quelle: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 1.

“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”

Lucifer in Starlight http://www.george-macdonald.com/meredith/lucifer.htm, l. 1-2 (1883).

“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”

Quelle: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.

“Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.”

Quelle: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 2.

“How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”

St. 41.
Compare: "Once in a golden hour / I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed", Alfred Tennyson, The Flower.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”

Love in the Valley http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/love_valley.htm, st. 2 (1883).

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