| Jane Austen - 1816 - Počet stránok 346
...DEDICATED, BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S DUTIFUL AND OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. EMMA. CHAP. I. EMMA Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...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 - Počet stránok 410
...miles from London, and the time occupied in its development is about thirteen months. EMMA. CHAPTER I. EMMA WOODHOUSE, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...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... | |
| Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - Počet stránok 242
...Knightley to look after her, she will do very well. Her position would be a spoiling one for any girl. " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a...disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings oJ existence ; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex... | |
| Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - Počet stránok 240
...Knightley to look after her, she will do very well. Her position would be a spoiling one for any girl. " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some 9 of the best blessings of existence ; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very... | |
| Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - Počet stránok 264
...myself will much like ' — but the first words of the book predispose the reader in her favour : — Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite , 18U-181B; Persuasion, 1815-1816. Brabouruo, ii. 312. ' Met. 151 tome of the beat blessings of existence... | |
| Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - Počet stránok 268
...myself will much like ' — but the first words of the book predispose the reader in her favour : — Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite 1 Emma, 1814-1815 ; Persuasion, 1815-1816. 2 Brabourne, ii. 312. 3 Ibid. eome of the best blessings... | |
| Orlo Williams - 1926 - Počet stránok 316
...Eyre or Wuthering Heights, if we are happy enough to have the discernment which can enjoy all three. " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...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... | |
| Francis Warre Cornish - 1926 - Počet stránok 268
...disposition, seemed to unite 1 Emma, 1814-1815 ; Persuasion, 1815-1816. " Brabourne, ii. 312. 3 Ibid. 151 some of the best blessings of existence ; and had...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... | |
| Seymour Benjamin Chatman - 1978 - Počet stránok 284
...typically introduce such summaries in a lump at the very outset (characteristically in the perfect tense): "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with...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... | |
| Seymour Benjamin Chatman - 1978 - Počet stránok 284
...forms, however, the name may be qualified immediately, in a way that sounds like a formal introduction ("Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition . . ."). The proper name, like the definite article, is deictic, establishing individual specificity.... | |
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