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Date: 1814
"Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before; and the self-reproach arising from the deplorable event in Wimpole Street, to which he felt himself accessary by all the dangerous intimacy of his unjustifiable theatre, made an impression on his mind whi...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1816
"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1816
"Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1816
"While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able--and yet without losing a word--to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1816
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1818
"Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and inca...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"That she might not appear, however, to observe or expect him, she kept her eyes intently fixed on her fan; and a self-condemnation for her folly, in supposing that among such a crowd they should even meet with the Tilneys in any reasonable time, had just passed through her mind, when she suddenl...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"You will allow, that in both, man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both, it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; th...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
