The lifted veil
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:55:28Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:55:28Z |
| dc.date.created | 1859 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3090 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3090 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1859. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2140 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Short stories -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | The lifted veil |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 696914 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot Chapter I THE time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan under the wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be otherwise — if I were to live on to the age most men desire and provide for — I should for once have known whether the miseries of delusive expectation can outweigh the miseries of true prevision. For I foresee when I shall die, and everything that will happen in my last moments. Just a month from this day, on the 20th of September 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o'clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope. Just as I . . .
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