Yet, with her limitations, it must be said that George Eliot is the superior of all other women in her literary accomplishments.

George Eliot was pre-eminently a novelist and a poet; but she is also the truest literary representative the nineteenth century has yet afforded of its positivist and scientific tendencies.

One of her school-fellows, as soon as she had read Adam Bede, said, "George Eliot is Marian Evans;" but others were only confident that the author must be some Nuncaton resident, and began to look about them for the author.

Eliot, Froude, Browning, Tennyson.] Carlyle was a voracious reader, and the plunder of whole literatures is strewn over his pages.

It is because George Eliot was not a mere speculative thinker that her teachings become so important.

Eliot is absolutely the right person for you, if you'd only the sense to see it.

Yet it is not difficult to see that George Eliot is not a poet in the fullest sense, because hers is not thoroughly and always a poetic mind, because she reasons about things too much.

In this, George Eliot is no more a realist than either of her great predecessors.

George Eliot was a much-meditating, painstaking writer, though Adam Bede cost her little more than a year's work.

George Eliot was not a mere disciple of any of the great teachers of evolution.

In her poetry George Eliot is much more a doctrinaire than in her novels.

Not George Eliot and not Thackeray was his rival in this historic insight and poetic power of interpretation; and his superior success was due not only to his peculiar genius but also to his romanticism.

John Eliot, and the band of eminent saints who began the labor with him in 1632, had been centuries in their tombs, but the great principles which they upheld and enforced were invested with the sacred vitality which they possessed at that day.

Nearly every line denotes that George Eliot was an earnest biblical student, and that she was, especially in the years 1839 and 1840, very anxious about her spiritual condition.

George Eliot is not so good a satirist as she is humorist.

Towards the development of the new school George Eliot has been a leading influence, though her sympathies have not gone with all its tendencies and results.

George Eliot was a thorough believer in the Darwinian theories of heredity, and she has in all her books shown the effects of hereditary conditions on the individual and even upon a people.