The thought of space
Such a subtle and evocative idea, likening a faint, indefinable and glorious feeling not to space, but to the thought...
Ahead of his time
While I believe that 'cold statistics' properly deployed, can in fact help us take account of people's feelings and traditions,...
The stream of feeling
Casaubon comes late to marriage and having decided upon it, dives headlong into the expected stream of feeling, only to...
Feeling, deep as a puddle
Gaskell is as capable as Jane Austen of skewering shallowness and pretension. I like this breezy ‘general friendly feeling’ being...
Emotions surfacing
A delicate description of unexpressed feelings becoming strong enough to be palpable, like a scent in the room.Â
On being attentive and polite
If Dorothea, the heroine of George Eliot's Middlemarch, doesn't win you over with her profound and subtle range of human...
The feeling of a cur
Mrs Glegg, as you can see from this simile, is not the most empathic or kind of characters. Here she...
Heart and soul
As we begin to grapple with the implications of artificial intelligence and robots, this allusion more than 150 years ago...
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