“What do I think of Middlemarch?” What do I think of glory — except
that in a few instances this “mortal has already put on immortality.”
George Eliot was one. The mysteries of human nature surpass the
“mysteries of redemption,” for the infinite we only suppose,
while we see the finite.
that in a few instances this “mortal has already put on immortality.”
George Eliot was one. The mysteries of human nature surpass the
“mysteries of redemption,” for the infinite we only suppose,
while we see the finite.
— EMILY DICKINSON, Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1959)