 in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other : fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid, than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what...  Sense and Sensibility - Page 82by Jane Austen - 1901 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...sometimes talks a great deal, and always with animation — but she is not often really merry." " I believe you are right," he replied, " and yet I have...were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." " No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 268 pages
...sometimes talks a great deal, and always with animation, — but she is not often really merry." "I believe you are right," he replied: "and yet I have...given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbors. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." " No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 224 pages
...they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." " But I thought it...never aimed at the subjection of the understanding. AH I have ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour. You must not confound my meaning. I am... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1899 - 264 pages
...sometimes talks a great deal, and always with animation, — but she is not often really merry." "I believe you are right," he replied: "and yet I have...given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbors. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." "'No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1926 - 474 pages
...they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." " But I thought it was right, Elinor," said Marianne, "to " to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - Education - 1995 - 310 pages
...Marianne accuses her of believing that one should "be guided wholly by the opinion of other people," that "our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbours" (94). Elinor denies the charge, claiming that she has tried to influence her sister's conduct, not... | |
 | Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 278 pages
...another, but they can be cutting in debate, as when Marianne pretends to think Elinor believes that 'our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbours' (94). Each exaggerates and observes and indeed seems deliberately to fashion herself as her sister's... | |
 | Jenny Davidson - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 256 pages
...judgments of others without question, Marianne teases her by saying, "But I thought it was right, Elinor, to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people....neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure" (93-94). "No, Marianne, never," Elinor responds. "My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...traditional psychology of the novel. 11 The Letters of DH Lawrence, pp. 197-98. The Tablet-breaker 2 3 "But I thought it was right, Elinor," said Marianne,...given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbors. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." "No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never... | |
 | Michael Prince - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...(1, xvii, p. 93), Marianne senses an opportunity to fight back: "But I thought it was right, Elinor, to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people....given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbors. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure" (1, xvii, pp. 93-94). Elinor, alarmed by... | |
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