Mansfield Park: A NovelB. Tauchnitz, 1867 - 442 pages |
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Admiral agitation agreeable Anhalt answer appear attention aunt Norris barouche began believe Betsey better brother cerned certainly comfort cousin cried dance dare say dear Fanny delighted East room Edmund everything eyes fancy Fanny's father feelings felt girl give glad gone Grant half happy hear heard heart Henry Crawford honour hope hour Julia kind knew Lady Bertram listened look manner Mansfield Park Maria marriage marry Mary mind Miss Bertram Miss Crawford Miss Price morning mother never niece Norris's Northampton Northamptonshire obliged opinion Parsonage party perhaps play pleasure poor Portsmouth pretty replied Rushworth seemed Sir Thomas Sir Thomas's sister smile soon sort Sotherton speak spirits Spithead spoke Stornaway suppose sure Susan talk tell thing Thornton Lacey thought Thrush tion Tom Bertram uncle voice walk William wish woman wonder word Yates young
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Page 188 - In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete ; being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Page 304 - But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere ; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.
Page 358 - Fanny found it impossible not to try for books again. There were none in her father's house; but wealth is luxurious and daring, and some of hers found its way to a circulating library. She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books!
Page 419 - ... the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people. I only entreat every body to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier, Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and became as anxious to marry Fanny, as Fanny herself could desire.
Page 54 - but, had I a place to new- fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver. I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively. I would rather abide by my own blunders, than by his.
Page 104 - Oh, no doubt he is very sincere in preferring an income ready made, to the trouble of working for one ; and has the best intentions of doing nothing all the rest of his days but eat, drink, and grow fat. It is indolence, Mr. Bertram, indeed. Indolence and love of ease — a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but to be slovenly and selfish — read the newspaper,...
Page 170 - Thomas, and giving perhaps the very best start he had ever given in the whole course of his rehearsals, Tom Bertram entered at the other end of the room ; and never had he found greater difficulty in keeping his countenance. His father's looks of solemnity and amazement on this, his first appearance on any stage, and the gradual metamorphosis of the impassioned' Baron Wildenheim into the well-bred and easy Mr. Yates, making his bow and apology to Sir Thomas Bertram, was such an exhibition, such a...
Page 394 - The evening passed without a pause of misery, the night was totally sleepless. She passed only from feelings of sickness to shudderings of horror; and from hot fits of fever to cold. The event was so shocking, that there were moments even when her heart revolted from it as impossible : when she thought it could not be. A woman married only six months ago ; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another ; that other her near relation ; the whole family, both families connected as they were...
Page 17 - Do you know, we asked her last night, which way she would go to get to Ireland; and she said, she should cross to the Isle of Wight. She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no other island in the world.
Page 353 - She was a manager by necessity, without any of Mrs. Norris's inclination for it, or any of her activity. Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's ; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in. She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother...