She is described as a thin woman, with a chronic liver-complaint, of indefatigable industry and epigrammatic speech; who, "in the utmost enjoyment of spoiling a friend's self-satisfaction, was never known to spoil a stocking."
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Her prose in those days had a swiftness of movement, an epigrammatic felicity, and a brilliancy of antithesis which we look for in vain in the over-elaborate sentences and somewhat ponderous wit of 'Theophrastus Such.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
One of the most epigrammatic passages in this article is where she says of Young, No man can be better fitted for an Established Church.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind