...very true," said Marianne, " that admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon. Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste...flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. 1 am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house...

...profess to feel. But, in return, your sister must allow me to feel no more than I profess. I like a fin^ prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do...flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. 1 am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house...

...Sensibility, Marianne says " admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon," and Edward adds, " I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing," etc. (Chapter XVIII). This is presumably the sentiment of the author. Mrs. Radcliffe was one of the...

...Sensibility, Marianne says " admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon," and Edward adds, "I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and nourishing," etc. (Chapter XVIII). This is presumably the sentiment of the author. Mrs. Radcliffe was...

...allow myself to add to his many instructive and characteristic quotations, this one from Jane Austen: "I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. 1 admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered...

...Edward, 'that you [Marianne] really feel all the delight in a fine prospect that you profess to feel ... I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall and straight and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles, or...

...calls 'him who first defined what picturesque beauty was', until Edward is provoked into responding,'! like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do not like crooked, twisted, in blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing. I am not fond...

...unhesitatingly voices his dis-like of the ideal of the picturesque when he says in a conversation with Marianne: I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more of they are tall, straight, and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond...

...unhesitatingly voices his dislike of the ideal of the picturesque when he says in a conversation with Marianne: I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more of they are tall, straight, and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond...

...regard, you would have heard of... EDWARD. I know nothing of the picturesque. MARIANNE. But— EDWARD. I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. (MARIANNE gasps.) I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing. I do not like...