 Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.  Jane Austen - Strona 128autor: Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - Liczba stron: 210Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Jane Austen - 1816 - Liczba stron: 346
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence ; and had lived...to distress or vex her. She was the youngest of the twodaughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father, and had, in consequenceof her sister's marriage,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1889 - Liczba stron: 410
...WOODHOUSE, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived...the world with very little to distress or vex her. JSlie was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father, and had, in consequence... | |
 | Jane Austen, Rosina Filippi - 1895 - Liczba stron: 182
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived...indulgent father ; and had, in consequence of her sister's (Isabella) marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. The real evils, indeed, of... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - Liczba stron: 268
...disposition, seemed to unite 1 Emma, 1814-1815 ; Persuasion, 1815-1816. 2 Brabourne, ii. 312. 3 Ibid. eome of the best blessings of existence ; and had lived...years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.1 The cheerful vein in which the story is begun continues throughout. The movement of the piece... | |
 | Orlo Williams - 1926 - Liczba stron: 316
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived...the world with very little to distress or vex her." Truly the story which opens thus is a quiet story of quiet people quietly told. It is the story of... | |
 | Seymour Benjamin Chatman - 1978 - Liczba stron: 284
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived...the world with very little to distress or vex her." Or, after an initial in medias res scene, putting us into the Court of Chancery on a particularly foggy... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1978 - Liczba stron: 260
...to a large extent concerned with facts, and the narrator is not going to deceive us about the facts. She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most...indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's early marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. (Ch. 1) The facts are presented... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Liczba stron: 336
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived...the world with very little to distress or vex her. The novel proceeds to set little traps for Emma's vanity and selfimportance, and she falls into every... | |
 | Maire Jaanus, Maire J. Kurrik - 1988 - Liczba stron: 292
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived...the world with very little to distress or vex her. . . . The real evils indeed of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way,... | |
 | Peter James Malcolm Scott - 1982 - Liczba stron: 220
...Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived...the world with very little to distress or vex her. is how the novel begins. We are shown a young lady who is practically the absolute monarch of her condition.... | |
| |
