 I am convinced,' said Edward, 'that you really feel all the delight in a fine prospect which you profess to feel. But, in return, your sister must allow me to feel no more than I profess. I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do...  Sense and Sensibility: a Novel - Page 81by Jane Austen - 1833 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Irene Collins - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 336 pages
...Edward Ferrars with a gently amusing response to Marianne's rapturous outbursts over wild landscapes: I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles, or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2003 - 454 pages
...tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.2 I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have...flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles, or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house... | |
 | S. M. Haslam - Technology & Engineering - 2003 - 311 pages
...Edward, 'that you [Marianne] really feel all the delight in a fine prospect that you profess to feel ... I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall and straight and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles, or... | |
 | Josephine Ross - Authors, English - 2003 - 316 pages
...calls 'him who first defined what picturesque beauty was', until Edward is provoked into responding,'! like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do not like crooked, twisted, in blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing. I am not fond... | |
 | Eckart Voigts-Virchow - Cultural industries - 2004 - 220 pages
...unhesitatingly voices his dislike of the ideal of the picturesque when he says in a conversation with Marianne: I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more of they are tall, straight, and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond... | |
 | Eckart Voigts-Virchow - Cultural industries - 2004 - 220 pages
...unhesitatingly voices his dis-like of the ideal of the picturesque when he says in a conversation with Marianne: I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more of they are tall, straight, and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond... | |
 | Colin Campbell - Business & Economics - 2005 - 316 pages
...tree',7'' but he has to confess that he lacks such a taste, preferring that which is sensible or useful: 1 like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles....flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles, or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house... | |
 | Ashley J. Barnard - Domestic drama - 2005 - 116 pages
...regard, you would have heard of... EDWARD. I know nothing of the picturesque. MARIANNE. But— EDWARD. I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles. I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. (MARIANNE gasps.) I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing. I do not like... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 598 pages
...sense and meaning." ' " I am convinced," said Edward, " that you really feel all the delight in a fair prospect which you profess to feel. But, in return,...flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. I am not fond of nettles or thistles or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than... | |
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