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" There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides which mutually attracted them ; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding. The same manners, however, which recommended Mrs.... "
Sense and Sensibility - Page 201
by Jane Austen - 1901 - 341 pages
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Sense and Sensibility: a Novel

Jane Austen - 1833 - 372 pages
...with. But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both." CHAPTER XII. MRS. JOHN DASHWOOD had so much confidence in her husband's judgment,...selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them ;1 and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of...
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Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion ...

Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...and as for Lady Middleton, she found ner one of the most charming women in the world. Lady Middieton was equally pleased with Mrs. Dashwood. There was...sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding. The same manners, however, which recommend Mrs. John...
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The Marlburian

Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 pages
...Finally, we cannot forbear quoting this remark, applicable to many ladies of fashion at all times : — " Lady Middleton was equally pleased with Mrs. Dashwood....selfishness on both sides which mutually attracted them j and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of...
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Sense and Sensibility, Volume 2

Jane Austen - England - 1899 - 314 pages
...with. But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both." CHAPTER VH. MKS. JOHN DASHWOOD had so much confidence in her husband's judgment that...both sides which mutually attracted them ; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding....
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Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion

Jane Austen - England - 1903 - 1020 pages
...with. But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both. CHAPTER XXXIV. MRS. JOHN DASHWOOD had so much confidence in her husband's judgment that...both sides which mutually attracted them ; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 228

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1917 - 608 pages
...Sir John Middleton, Mrs Jennings, and the juxtaposition of Lady Middleton and Fanny Dashwood, ' who sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety...of demeanour and a general want of understanding.' But its tremendous successors set up a standard beside which) 'Sense and Sensibility' is bound to appear...
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Essays and Studies, Volume 2

English Association - English literature - 1911 - 192 pages
...worse spoilt than Mary Musgrove's, and who made friends with Mrs. John Dashwood the moment they met. ' There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides which mutually attracted them ; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour and a general want of understanding.'...
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Jane Austen

Francis Warre Cornish - 1929 - 212 pages
...hint that Lady Middleton and Mrs Dashwood are certain to get on — There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted...demeanour, and a general want of understanding. The Steeles' fawning, flattering ways charm Fanny Dashwood as they have pleased Lady Middleton, and from...
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Life of Jane Austen

Goldwin Smith - Authors, English - 1890 - 204 pages
...kind of coldhearted selfishness on both sides which naturally attracted them, and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour and a general want of understanding." Lady Middleton, however, gets her due. In her calm and polite unconcern, Elinor finds a relief from...
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Jane Austen, a Reassessment

Peter James Malcolm Scott - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 220 pages
...scene and this intuition even provokes in the author two utterances (to my sense) slightly hysterical: Lady Middleton was equally pleased with Mrs. Dashwood. There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each...
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