 Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing...  Sense and Sensibility: a Novel - Page 325by Jane Austen - 1833 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1864 - 356 pages
...opening was given for their exercise, reconciled Mrs. Perrars to his choice, and re-established hurt completely in her favour. The whole of Lucy's behaviour...fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and eonscience. When Robert first sought her acquaintance, and privately visited her in Bartlett's Buildings,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 576 pages
...Ferrars to his choice, and reestablished him completely in her favor. The whole of Lucy's behavior in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. When Kobert first sought her acquaintance, and privately visited her in Bartlett's Buildings, it was only... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...sentimentality, but with the equally insistent selfishness of Lucy Steele. The whole of Lucy's behavior in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. There are not many stronger pictures in fiction of a busy-bodied selfishness than the scenes in which... | |
 | Valentine David Davis - Devotional calendars - 1904 - 388 pages
...encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its prospect may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with noother sacrifice than that of time and conscience.' It is the history of a lost soul ! How readily... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1905 - 310 pages
...nobody can tell what may happen — for, when people are much thrown together, and see little of anybody else — and it will always be in your power to set...advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of tune 'and conscience. When Robert first sought her acquaintance, and privately visited her in Bartlett's... | |
 | Jane Austen - Domestic fiction - 1913 - 378 pages
...Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth 15 as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest,...time and conscience. When Robert first sought her ac20 quaintance, and privately visited her in Bartlett's Buildings, it was only with the view imputed... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1929 - 212 pages
...she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can. Northanger Abbey The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. Sense and Sensibility It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2006 - 354 pages
...affirmations. Much of the reader's delight comes from the tonal vitality and complexity of the prose. "The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience." This sentence — and the novel contains many such sentences — conveys a complicated attitude. On... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...but the censorship of decency. So of Lucy Steele, the author writes that her intrigue and its success "may be held forth as a most encouraging instance...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (61). It may, of course, be said that Jane Austen uses her comic celebration of ingenious villainy... | |
 | Syndy M. Conger - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 248 pages
...similar vocabulary of business and prosperity as the reward of labor: "The whole of Lucy's behavior in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it,...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (Sense and Sensibility, 376).27 The point about this business or market or labor vocabulary is not... | |
 | Oliver MacDonagh - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 212 pages
...prosper more. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it ... may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. (p. 376) The ultimate words imply, however, that there is a price to be paid for everything, even -... | |
 | Edward Copeland - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...representative of this order: "The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (p. 376). The prudent way of the pseudo-gentry, that is to say, of the Dashwood women and Edward Ferrars... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - Education - 1995 - 310 pages
...forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest . . . will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (376). Attention to the self and its interests in Lucy appears unambiguously reprehensible, partly... | |
 | Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 252 pages
...Robert into marrying her and his rich, stupid mother, Mrs Ferrars, into making a favourite of her. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the...fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.2 On a similar note, in Persuasion, early in the final chapter, a moral is drawn. When any... | |
 | Mary Waldron - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 208 pages
...blatant misdeeds of others also go unpunished. Lucy, married to the heir to the Ferrars fortune, shows 'what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest,...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience' (SS 376); Willoughby 'lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself (SS 379). The most venal of the... | |
 | Shawna Mullen - Self-Help - 2003 - 244 pages
..."Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure." Mary Crawford, MP The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. SS Self-pity Everybody around her was gay and busy, prosperous and important; each had their object... | |
 | Jenny Davidson - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 256 pages
...Pamela in her incarnation as Shamela.14 The prosperity which crowns Lucy's duplicity, says the narrator, "may be held forth as a most encouraging instance...fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience."'5 Elinor Dashwood's reward is more modest: marriage to the less wealthy Ferrars brother.... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Fiction - 2004 - 203 pages
...what a determined devotion to self-interest might bring; like Willoughby, Lucy's story is a parable: "A most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (p. 267). Austen is a moralist, but, as John Lauber has put it, she is not a "punitive" moralist. Sometimes... | |
 | Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest . . . will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (376). Why might Austen call this behavior "encouraging" or refer to John Dashwood as "respectable"?... | |
 | Michael Prince - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to selfinterest, however its progress may apparently be obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (1n, xiv, p. 376). Good causes produce bad effects; bad causes produce good effects. Embracing Imlac's... | |
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