Sense and Sensibility

Front Cover
B. Tauchnitz, 1864 - 340 pages
 

Selected pages

Contents

I
1
II
5
III
11
IV
15
V
20
VI
23
VII
27
VIII
31
XXVI
139
XXVII
146
XXVIII
153
XXIX
157
XXX
169
XXXI
177
XXXII
188
XXXIII
195

IX
34
X
40
XI
46
XII
50
XIII
55
XIV
61
XV
66
XVI
73
XVII
79
XVIII
84
XIX
89
XX
97
XXI
104
XXII
112
XXIII
120
XXIV
127
XXV
133
XXXIV
203
XXXV
211
XXXVI
218
XXXVII
226
XXXVIII
239
XXXIX
247
XL
252
XLI
260
XLII
267
XLIII
272
XLIV
281
XLV
297
XLVI
303
XLVII
311
XLVIII
318
XLIX
322
L
333

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 85 - You must not inquire too far, Marianne— remember, I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste, if we come to particulars. I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold ; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged ; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.
Page 100 - His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman...
Page 1 - The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where for many generations they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintances.
Page 60 - On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong, and with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure." "But, my dear Marianne, as it has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks, do you not now begin to doubt the discretion of your own conduct?" "If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety...
Page 83 - But I thought it was right, Elinor," said Marianne, " to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure.
Page 73 - MARIANXK would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.
Page 41 - The same books, the same passages, were idolised by each ; or if any difference appeared, any objection arose, it lasted no longer than till the force of her arguments and the brightness of her eyes could be displayed. He acquiesced in all her decisions, caught all her enthusiasm ; and long before his visit concluded, they conversed with a familiarity of a longestablished acquaintance. " Well, Marianne," said Elinor, as soon as he had left them, " for one morning I think you have done pretty well.
Page 3 - ... his temper was cheerful and sanguine, and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters. His son was sent for, as soon as his danger was...
Page 86 - that to avoid one kind of affectation, Edward here falls into another. Because he believes many people pretend to more admiration of the beauties of nature than they really feel, and is disgusted with such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less discrimination in viewing them himself than he possesses. He is fastidious, and will have an affectation of his own.
Page 27 - ... his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions, which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home. On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.

Bibliographic information