Sense and SensibilityDent, 1922 - 308 pages |
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acquaintance admiration affection Allenham appeared assure attention Austen Barton behaviour believe brother Colonel Brandon comfort cottage cried Marianne curricle dare say daughter dear Delaford delight disappointment Elizabeth Bennet engagement everything expected eyes fancy Fanny farther feelings felt friends gave girl give glad happy Harley Street hear heard heart hope immediately Jane Austen Jennings Jennings's John Dashwood kind knew Lady Middleton laugh less letter live look Lucy Lucy's ma'am manner Marianne's marriage married ment mind minutes Miss Dashwood Miss Steele morning mother never Norland Northanger Abbey obliged opinion pain Palmer Park party perhaps pleasure poor Pride and Prejudice replied Elinor returned Robert Ferrars seemed Sense and Sensibility silent Sir John sister smile soon speak spirits suffered suppose sure surprise talk tell thing thought thousand pounds tion told town walked Willoughby wish woman wonder young
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Page xv - It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; " or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Page xiv - You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life. Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on...
Page 78 - I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles, or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farmhouse than a watch-tower, and a troop of tidy, happy villagers please me better than the finest banditti in the world.
Page xiv - Bow wow strain I can do myself like any now going but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
Page x - ... a real, honest, old-fashioned boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
Page xi - I did not know a great deal that she has not the least notion of yet. How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns ! " "Yes," added the other; "and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus ; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.
Page 77 - I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste, if we come to particulars. I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold ; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged ; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.
Page 135 - Nay, Elinor, this reproach from you! — you who have confidence in no one ! ' 'Me!' returned Elinor, in some confusion; ' indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell.' ' Nor I,' answered Marianne with energy ; 'our situations, then, are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell ; you, because you communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.
Page 140 - ... Mrs. Dashwood, and asked how long they had been in town. Elinor was robbed of all presence of mind by such an address, and was unable to say a word. But the feelings of her sister were instantly expressed. Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed in a voice of the greatest emotion, " Good God I Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? Have you not received my letters? Will you not shake hands with me?
Page 308 - His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.