2013年4月25日 星期四

EMMA


p.34   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER III〕
She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.

p.62   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER V〕
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

p.66   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER V〕
Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied it.


p.160   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XI〕
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

p.238   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVI〕
Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind. The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it.

p.258   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVIII〕
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.


p.260   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVIII〕
If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

p.308   〔VOLUME 2,  CHAPTER III〕
one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand. One takes up a notion, and runs away with it.

p.354   〔VOLUME 2,  CHAPTER VI〕
I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.

p.564   〔VOLUME 3,  CHAPTER II〕
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.


p.712   〔VOLUME 3,  CHAPTER X〕
If a woman can ever be excused for thinking only of herself, it is a situation like Jane Fairfax's.-Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.'