 By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted; at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, — nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved...  Persuasion - Page 110by Jane Austen - 1895 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - Books and reading - 1818 - 298 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb} and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...Henrietta was consigned, for, though partially revived, 4 she was quite helpless; and in this manner, Anne walking by her side, and Charles attending to his... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted; at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the lij*t: report. To some of the best-looking of these good people Henrietta was consigned, for, though... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted ; at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...and in this manner, Anne walking by her side, and Charlea attending to his wife, they set forward, treading back, with feelings unutterable, the ground... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1888 - 412 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted ; at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as flue as the first report. To some of the best-looking of these good people Henrietta was consigned,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1898 - 650 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted; at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, — nay,...feelings unutterable, the ground which so lately, so i very lately, and so light of heart, they had passed along. They were not off the Cobb before the... | |
 | Wilhelm Dibelius - English fiction - 1910 - 494 pages
...ist verunglückt; ihre Schwester ist in Ohnmacht gefallen; von allen Seiten strömen Menschen herbei, 'to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay two...ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report' (Prs 318). Ähnliches findet sich gelegentlich auch bei Miss Edgeworth. Zum Teil mit starker subjektiver... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 309 pages
...there suddenly appear "workmen and boatmen" who have gathered "to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report" (p. 111). What is remarkable about this passage is not its proof that Austen was aware of the lower... | |
 | Mary Lascelles - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 239 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report.'2 The mockery sheathed in that phrase — 'nay, two dead young ladies' — pricks in an instant... | |
 | Kathy Mezei - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 300 pages
...individualized bodies or faces: "Many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...best-looking of these good people Henrietta was consigned" (131). Someone among the central characters looks long enough at the workmen to judge the "best-looking,"... | |
 | J Bond - Science - 1996 - 260 pages
...and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two...ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report. Jane Austen (1775-1817), Persuasion. ***** Have more strings to thy bow than one; it is safe riding... | |
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