Newly born, oldly wise
A lilting double simile here, each with a timeless simplicity. Let's add them to the common stock and start to...
One foot in, one foot out
A wry response to the observation by his future brother-in-law regarding Mr. Casaubon's suitability for marriage. The old dry-as-dust scholar-curmudgeon...
Dull-eyed neutrality
A fine description of the impartial and indifferent gaze of age that has seen it all, in this case attributed...
In celebration of later love
George Eliot noticed a bias in poets' treatment of love, a tendency to say many fine things about its first...
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