 She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next, — that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said...  Sense and Sensibility - Page 27by Jane Austen - 1892 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...the warmth she had been betrayed into, in speaking of him. She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion. She believed the regard to be mutual...certainty of it to make Marianne's conviction of their attachmen agreeable to her. She knew that what Marianne and hei mother conjectured one moment, they... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 224 pages
...the warmth she had been betrayed into, in speaking of him. She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion. She believed the regard to be mutual...her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next—that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. She tried to explain the real... | |
 | Jane Austen - England - 1905 - 296 pages
...for the warmth she had been betrayed into in speaking of him. She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion. She believed the regard to be mutual;...her mother conjectured one moment they believed the next—that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. She tried to explain the real... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 212 pages
...Elinor's words, "what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment" about Edward's plans to marry her "they believed the next — that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect" (SS 21). But the wariness Elinor is enjoining does not obtain. Sense and Sensibility is a novel of... | |
 | G. J. Barker-Benfield - History - 1992 - 554 pages
...for many years: "what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that to them, to wish was to hope and to hope was to expect." Austen catalogs the extreme language and aesthetic convenWomen and Individualism 335 tions of exaggerated... | |
 | Shaun O'Toole - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 116 pages
...the warmth she had been betrayed into, in speaking of him. She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion. She believed the regard to be mutual;...- that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope u .is to expect. She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. 'I do not attempt to... | |
 | William Ian Miller - Philosophy - 2003 - 310 pages
...sentiments that ends in wishful thinking. As that most eminent of psychologists, Jane Austen, would have it: "What Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment,...with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."13 But our yeoman's mind doesn't work in this way. Hope itself remains for him a sign of the... | |
 | Patrice Hannon - Social Science - 2007 - 180 pages
...marriage to Marianne. Mrs. Dashwood has passed on this over-eagerness to one daughter, at least: ". . . what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next . . . with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect." In contrast, Elinor is more like... | |
 | Peter W. Graham - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 228 pages
...everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great" (SS 6). Knowing that "what Marianne and her mother conjectured one...them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect" (SS 21), the fatherless Elinor finds herself the still-teenaged head of her all-female family — if... | |
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