The New International Encyclopædia/Armgart

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ARM′GART. A dramatic poem by George Eliot, published in Macmillan's Magazine in July, 1871, and containing a female character of singular strength and fortitude, of the same name. Armgart refuses a splendid offer of marriage in order to pursue her ideal life as a great singer. Her voice fails, and she retires, broken-hearted, to teach music in a small village.