Middlemarch - George Eliot - 图书 -  - 9798598392836 - 2021年1月25日
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Middlemarch

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, -or from one of our elder poets, -in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense. Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister's, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements; for Miss Brooke's plain dressing was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister share

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2021年1月25日
ISBN13 9798598392836
页数 644
商品尺寸 127 × 203 × 36 mm   ·   689 g
语言 英语  

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