 The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed,...  Sense and Sensibility - Page 290by Jane Austen - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1888 - 412 pages
...reconciled Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favor. The whole of Lncy's behavior in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned...unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress ma\" be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...with her sister's absorbing sentimentality, but with the equally insistent selfishness of Lucy Steele. The whole of Lucy's behavior in the affair, and the...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. There are not many stronger pictures in fiction of a busy-bodied selfishness than the scenes in which... | |
 | Valentine David Davis - Devotional calendars - 1904 - 388 pages
...of her heroines as follows : ' The whole of Lucy's behaviour, and the prosperity which crowned it, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of...unceasing attention to self-interest, however its prospect may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with noother... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1905 - 310 pages
...Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of tune 'and conscience. When Robert first sought her acquaintance, and privately visited her in Bartlett's... | |
 | Jane Austen - England - 1905 - 304 pages
...Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing 279 every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. When Robert... | |
 | Jane Austen - Novelists, English - 1906 - 352 pages
...Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1929 - 212 pages
...knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can. Northanger Abbey The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. Sense and Sensibility It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...but the censorship of decency. So of Lucy Steele, the author writes that her intrigue and its success "may be held forth as a most encouraging instance...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (61). It may, of course, be said that Jane Austen uses her comic celebration of ingenious villainy... | |
 | Q. D. Leavis - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...first novel the winding up, though clumsily expressed, enlarges on this: The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifices than that of time and conscience.... | |
 | Oliver MacDonagh - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 212 pages
...prosper more. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it ... may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. (p. 376) The ultimate words imply, however, that there is a price to be paid for everything, even -... | |
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