“Twas easy following where invention trod
— All eyes can see when light flows out from God.
And thus did Jubal to his race reveal
Music their larger soul, where woe and weal
Filling the resonant chords, the song, the dance,
Moved with a wider-winged utterance.”

—  George Eliot

The Legend of Jubal (1869)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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