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Date: 1818
"This language is not the less true to nature, because it is false in point of fact; but so much the more true and natural, if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
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)
Date: 1818
"Yet, though longing to make her acquainted with her happiness, she cheerfully submitted to the wish of Mr. Allen, which took them rather early away, and her spirits danced within her, as she danced in her chair all the way home."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"These painful ideas crossed her mind, though she said nothing."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"My dear Eleanor, the riot is only in your own brain."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"Catherine's understanding began to awake: an idea of the truth suddenly darted into her mind."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"Tilney says it is always the case with minds of a certain stamp."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"It was no wonder that the General should shrink from the sight of such objects as that room must contain; a room in all probability never entered by him since the dreadful scene had passed, which released his suffering wife, and left him to the stings of conscience."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
