To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.
Jane AustenTag: marriage jane-austen teacher
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.
Django WylieTag: truth writing writing-craft wordplay jane-austen pride-and-prejudice moby-dick writing-life herman-melville
I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.
Diana PeterfreundTag: love true-love jane-austen persuasion compass
... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic connections with others and eager to inflict as much pain as is compatible with a thin veneer of politeness. Whereas Blair judged the Addisonian sentence as a completely autonomous unit, Austen judges the sentence as the product of a pre-existing moral agent. What counts is the sentence's ability to reveal that agent, not to enshrine a free-standing morsel of truth.
Mr Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, in contrast, features a quite different practice of the sentence, including an odd form of punctation ... The dashes in Mr Darcy's letter transform the typographical sentence by physically making each sentence continuous with the next one. ... The dashes insist that each sentence is not self-sufficient but belongs to a larger macrostructure. Most of Mr Darcy's justification consists not of organised arguments like those of Mr Collins but of narrative. ... The letter's totality exists not in the typographical sentence but in the described event.
Tag: style jane-austen grammar linguistics
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Jane AustenTag: jane-austen persuasion captain-wentworth
If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes."
Tasmin Berrybender
Tag: romance jane-austen berrybender-narratives tasmin
I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
Jane AustenTag: mr-darcy jane-austen pride-and-prejudice
Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought that was Shakespeare." "William was, or course, quite good," Flora said. "But no one can compare to Jane Austen.
Krista McGeeTag: shakespeare literature jane-austen
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Jane believes me, don't you Jane?
Krista McGeeTag: literature jane-austen
You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.
Shannon L. AlderTag: humor fear pain love romance sorrow self-worth unrequited-love jane-austen games cruelty betrayal anxiety dignity sense-and-sensibility settling false-love impulsivity maryann miss-gray willoughby
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