 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...  Sense and Sensibility - Page 73by Jane Austen - 1864 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1871 - 588 pages
...plentifully at each. She will be in no whit behind Marianne Dashwood in ' Sense and Sensibility,' who " would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the fiist night after parting from Willoughby." Meanwhile they have made up their little differences. Paul... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1872 - 458 pages
...plentifully at each. She will be in no whit behind Marianne Dashwood in " Sense and Sensibility," who " would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...all the first night after parting from Willoughby." Meanwhile, they have made up their little differences. Paul has eaten his words — has assured his... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1872 - 342 pages
...plentifully at each. She will be in no whit behind Marianne Dashwood in ' Sense and Sensibility,' who " would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...all the first night after parting from Willoughby." Meanwhile they have made up their little differences. Paul has eaten his words — has assured his... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...Austen's Marianne the representation of sensibility, as her sister Elinor is of sense : " Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...not risen from her bed in more need of repose than 284 WAKING AND WEEPING. when she lay down in it. " She was awake the whole night, and she wept the... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...romantic folly of over-sensibility is a favorite subject of satire with Miss Austen : > I Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...more need of repose than when she lay down in it. "Well, Marianne," said Elinor, as soon as he had left them, " for one morning I think you have done... | |
 | Frances Theresa Russell - English fiction - 1920 - 374 pages
...Marianne, disappointed in the vanished romance she had built up chiefly from imaginative material, "would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...more need of repose than when she lay down in it." * If Meredith, three-quarters of a century later, had been relating the sad fortunes of a self-deceived... | |
 | Karen Ann Hohne, Helen Wussow - Feminist literary criticism - 1994 - 234 pages
..."Marianne would have thought herself nicAciisahle hail siv rven ahle to sleep at all the first night. . . . She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning. . . . She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest pan of it. . . . Her sensibility was... | |
 | Karen Ann Hohne, Helen Wussow - Feminist literary criticism - 1994 - 234 pages
...Dashwood family for London, for example, the reader is told that "Marianne would have thought herself inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night. . . . She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning. . . . She was awake... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...Dashwood's ill-making feelings in Sense and Sensibility when the man she loves abruptly departs. Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...more need of repose than when she lay down in it. ... She got up with an headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving... | |
 | Herbert Christ, Michael Legutke - Cultural relations - 1996 - 376 pages
...cherished for its own sake without regard for facts. Marianne, being disappointed by her imagined romance, would have thought herself very inexcusable had she...bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.100 Trollope in The Warden (1855) generalizes the argument and turns it against the humanitarian... | |
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