 it is only a novel! " replies the young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; " or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...  Chapters from Jane Austen - Page 142by Jane Austen - 1888 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - England - 1818 - 338 pages
...or momentary shame.-1-*" It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough rough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...indifference, or momentary shame. ". It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 pages
...indifference, or momentdry shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now3 had the same young lady been engaged... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...momentary shame. " It is only ' Cecilia,' or ' Camilla,' or ' Belinda ;' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...novelist exercised the function of displaying the greatest powers of the mind, and that novels are works in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. In other words. T found that new, hitherto undreamed-of, vistas were being opened up to me, vistas... | |
 | Jane Austen - English fiction - 1856 - 464 pages
...human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how proudly would she have... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - 578 pages
...she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is perhaps only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its vanities, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...or momentary shame. It is only ' Cecilia/ or ' Camilla/ or ' Belinda/ or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.* Now had the same young lady been engaged... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1881 - 530 pages
...L.] JANE AUSTEN : " It is only ' Cecilia,' or Camilla,' or ' Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of it's varieties, the liveliest... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 450 pages
...indifference, or momentary shame. ' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged... | |
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