 Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, — instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in retirement and study, as afterwards in her more...  Sense and Sensibility - Page 294by Jane Austen - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in...a new home, a wife, the mistress of a family, and tha patroness of a village. Colonel Brandon was now as happy as all those who best loved him believed... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - 240 pages
...remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in retirement and study, . . . she found herself at nineteen submitting to new attachments,...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village." There can be little doubt that in Sense and Sensibility we have the first of Jane Austen's revised... | |
 | Jane Austen - Novelists, English - 1906 - 352 pages
...passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, — instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village. Cojonel Brandon was now as happy as all those who best loved him believed he deserved to be; — in... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - 268 pages
...passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in...wife, the mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village.1 Jane Austen probably learnt by experience that the supreme quality of her work lay not so... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - 264 pages
...her only pleasures in retirement and study, as afterwards in her more calm and sober judgment «he had determined on, — she found herself, at nineteen,...wife, the mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village.1 Jano Austen probably learnt by exporionco that the supremo quality of hor work luy not so... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 234 pages
...fate that has fulfilled its purpose with her, through breakdown and rebirth, by the age of nineteen.28 'Entering on new duties, placed in a new home, a wife,...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village', Marianne, after such a fairy-tale ending, can look forward with confidence to a future undisturbed... | |
 | Elizabeth Langland, Walter R. Gove - Education - 1983 - 168 pages
...sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, . . . found herself, at nineteen, submitting to new attachments,...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village" (p. 275) — when she finds herself so circumstanced, her submission obviously had its compensations.... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 288 pages
...her hand to another! ... But so it was. Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion ... she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new attachments,...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village. (378-9) If Mrs Barbauld's critical observations are noteworthy, her technical analysis is remarkable.... | |
 | Oliver MacDonagh - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 212 pages
...have amounted to much the same. Marianne was to enjoy her 'competence' of 'two thousand a-year', when 'she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village' (p. 379). Is there perhaps a satisfying aptness in 'Sense' settling for cautious comfort, but 'Sensibility'... | |
 | Regina Barreca - Humor - 1994 - 204 pages
...sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting . . . she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new attachments,...mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village. . . . Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to... | |
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