Novels: EmmaOxford University Press, 1926 |
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acquaintance admiration afraid agreeable amiable appeared assure aunt beauty believe better body Campbell carriage certainly CHAP charade Cole comfort compliment dancing dare say daughter dear Emma dear Jane delightful dinner Dixon Donwell doubt elegant Elton Emma's Enscombe fancy father feel felt Frank Churchill girl give Goddard's half happy Harriet Smith Hartfield hear heard Highbury hope hour idea imagine Isabella Jane Fairfax John Knightley kind knew Knightley's lady look manner Maple Grove marry means mind Miss Bates Miss Fairfax Miss Smith Miss Taylor morning never obliged opinion papa party perhaps Perry pleased pleasure poor pretty PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Randalls replied Robert Martin seemed shew smile soon sorry sort speak spirits suppose sure surprized talked tell thing thought told walk Weston Weymouth wife William Larkins wish woman wonder Woodhouse's word young
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Page 5 - Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Page 359 - ... enjoying them.— Morning decidedly the best time— never tired— every sort good— hautboy infinitely superior— no comparison— the others hardly eatable— hautboys very scarce— Chili preferred— white wood finest flavour of all— price of strawberries in London— abundance about Bristol— Maple Grove— cultivation— beds when to be renewed— gardeners thinking exactly different— no general rule— gardeners never to be put out of their way— delicious fruit— only too rich...
Page 6 - The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself : these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.
Page 279 - Insufferable woman !" was her immediate exclamation. " Worse than I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable ! Knightley ! — I could not have believed it. Knightley ! — never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley ! — and discover that he is a gentleman ! A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E. and her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.
Page 29 - That may be, and I may have seen him fifty times, but without having any idea of his name. A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of person to raise my curiosity. The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do. A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me ; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other. But a farmer can need none of my help, and is therefore, in one sense, as much...
Page 84 - I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
Page 360 - Farm ; but now she feared it not. It might be safely viewed with all its appendages of prosperity and beauty, its rich pastures, spreading flocks, orchard in blossom, and light column of smoke ascending.
Page 86 - I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about. There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need.
Page 37 - Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she ' was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through — and very good lists they were — very well chosen, and very neatly arranged — sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen — I remember thinking it did her judgment...
Page 22 - ... a real, honest, old-fashioned boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.