 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...  Sense and Sensibility - Page xivby Jane Austen - 1922 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...who had submitted a novel of her own to her aunt's kindly criticism, she says (September 9, 1814) : ' You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting...is the very thing to work on ; and I hope you will write a great deal more, and make full use of them while they are so very favourably arranged VOL.... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - Novelists, English - 1871 - 396 pages
...wandering story. And people in general do not care much about it, for your comfort. . . .' ' Sept. 9. ' You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting...is the very thing to work on ; and I hope you will write a great deal more, and make full use of them while they are so very favourably arranged.' ' Sept.... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 396 pages
...wandering story. And people in general do not care much about it, for your comfort . . .' ' Sept 9. ' You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting...is the very thing to work on; and I hope you will write a great deal more, and make full use of them while they are so very favourably arranged.' ' Sept... | |
 | Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 220 pages
...incident in part, no doubt, that suggested the spirited Plan of a Novel according to Hints from Furious Quarters, in which she touches off the conventional...more, and make full use of them, while they are so ivory" of a countiy village she drew her finished favourably arranged." On the "two-inch bit of miniatures,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 702 pages
...the ball, and so well satisfied apparently with Mr. Morgan. She seems to have changed her character. You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting...you will do a great deal more, and make full use of tbem while they are so very favorably arranged. Yon are but now coming to the heart and beauty of your... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1898 - 352 pages
...the ball, and so well satisfied apparently with Mr. Morgan. She seems to have changed her character. You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting...more, and make full use of them while they are so very favorably arranged. You are but now coming to the heart and beauty of your story. Until the heroine... | |
 | University extension - 1895 - 748 pages
...made once herself, in advising a young relative who was learning to write: "You are now," she said, "collecting your people delightfully, getting them...in a country village is the very thing to work on." These three or four families are always in her novels, of the social stratum to which she herself belonged,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1899 - 390 pages
...the ball, and so well satisfied apparently with Mr. Morgan. She seems to have changed her character. You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting...more, and make full use of them while they are so very favorably arranged. You are but now coming to the heart and beauty of your story. Until the heroine... | |
 | James Oliphant (M.A.) - English fiction - 1899 - 270 pages
...appear in the delicate and carefully-finished touches of Miss Austen's miniatures. In her own words " three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on ", and it is a proof alike of her genuine power and of the wisdom of her method that out of such limited material... | |
 | 1906 - 740 pages
...friend, who had sent for her perusal the opening chapters of a novel in manuscript, she wrote in reply: "You are now collecting your people delightfully,...more, and make full use of them while they are so favorably arranged." Herein Jane Austen but described "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," or any... | |
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