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Page 367 - Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain — which taste cannot tolerate — which ridicule will seize.
Page 335 - How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, — how eloquent, at least, were her wishes, on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence ! — She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older — the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Page 81 - that admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon. Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.
Page 360 - Wentworth's, a bow, a courtesy passed ; she heard his voice ; he talked to Mary, said all that was right, said something to the Miss Musgroves, enough to mark an easy footing ; the room seemed full, full of persons and voices, but a few minutes ended it. Charles shewed himself at the window, all was ready, their visitor had bowed and was gone, the Miss Musgroves were gone too, suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village with the sportsmen ; the room was cleared, and Anne might finish her...
Page 309 - He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable ! and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.
Page 129 - ... confinement of a carriage, and ready to enjoy all the luxury of a good fire. The house was handsome and handsomely fitted up, and the young ladies were immediately put in possession of a very comfortable apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect.
Page 344 - ANNE had not wanted this visit to Uppercross to learn that a removal from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea.
Page 344 - The Musgroves, like their houses, were in a state of alteration, perhaps of improvement The father and mother were in the old English style, and the young people in the new.
Page 387 - My dear Admiral, that post ! — we shall certainly take that post' But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself, they happily passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand, they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.
Page 204 - I think," was his next observation, " in a cottage near Dawlish." Elinor set him right as to its situation, and it seemed rather surprising to him that anybody could live in ^ Devonshire without living near Dawlish. He bestowed his hearty approbation, however, on their species of house. " For my own part," said he, " I am excessively fond of a cottage ; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one...