I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.


The Works of George Eliot: Middlemarch (ed. 1900)

George Eliot Quotes

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.