 | Jane Austen - England - 1816 - 346 pages
...pleasant as anybody else. And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first ; for a very narrow...not apply, however, to Miss Bates; she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of everybody,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...pleasant as any body else ! And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first ; for a very narrow...not apply, however, to Miss Bates : she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me ; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of every body,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...pleasant as anybody else ! And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first ; for a very narrow...inferior society, may well be illiberal and cross." — Emma, ch. x. The money article is unquestionably an important one, in the matter of oldmaidish... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1841 - 452 pages
...pleasant as any body else ! And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense "of the world as appears at first; for a very narrow...not apply, however, to Miss Bates : she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me ; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of every body,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1881 - 448 pages
...pleasant as any body else .' And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first ; for a very narrow...Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a vsry small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. This does not apply,... | |
 | Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 220 pages
...cure" for an early disappointment in love, though theoretically, as Emma tells the wondering Harriet, "it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible...inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross." This firm and not unreasonable belief in the desirableness of a competency tinges the matrimonial views... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 pages
...a sentence which might come straight from Boswell. " The distinction (between poverty and fortune) is not quite so much against the candour and common-sense...inferior society, may well be illiberal and cross." Or again " personal size and mental sorrow have no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...sensible and pleasant as anybody else ! And the distinction is not quite so much against the candor and common-sense of the world as appears at first,...inferior society, may well be illiberal and cross. . . . If I know myself, Harriet, mine is an active, busy mind, with a great many independent resources... | |
 | Jane Austen - England - 1905 - 366 pages
...pleasant as anybody else ! And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first ; for a very narrow...has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the 122 temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1922 - 372 pages
...cure " for an early disappointment in love, though theoretically, as Emma tells the wondering Harriet, "it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible...inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross." This firm and not unreasonable belief in the desirableness of a competency tinges the matrimonial views... | |
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... a very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, -and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. 
