The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney): 1778-1787Vizetelly, 1890 |
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney): 1778-1787 Fanny Burney Visualització completa - 1890 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xlix - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Pàgina 241 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Pàgina 193 - There were not, I believe, a hundred; but they did their work at leisure, in full security without sentinels. without trepidation, as men lawfully employed in full day. Such is the cowardice of a commercial place.
Pàgina xlix - Jane Austen, a woman of whom England is justly proud. She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, common-place, all such as we meet every day. Yet they are all as perfectly discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric of human beings.
Pàgina xliii - I should surely never go through another fortnight, in so weak and languishing and painful a state of health. . . . As the time of separation approached, the Queen's cordiality rather diminished, and traces of internal displeasure appeared sometimes, arising from an opinion I ought rather to have struggled on, live or die, than to quit her. Yet I am sure she saw how poor was my own chance, except by a change in the mode of life, and at least ceased to wonder, though she could not approve.
Pàgina liii - His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper; but his gaiety is that of a foolish overgrown schoolboy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. He disdains his father for his close attention to business and love of money, though he seems himself to have no talents, spirit, or generosity to make him superior to either. His chief delight appears to be in tormenting and ridiculing his sisters, who in return most cordially despise him.
Pàgina 84 - But, my dear," continued he with a very droll look, " what makes you so fond of the Scotch ? I don't like you for that ; — I hate these Scotch, and so must you. I wish Branghton had sent the dog to jail ! That Scotch dog Macartney.
Pàgina 99 - ... a rising wit, and she is at the top; and when I was beginning the world, and was nothing and nobody, the joy of my life was to fire at all the established wits ; * and then everybody loved to halloo me on. But there is no game now ; everybody would be glad to see me conquered; but then, when I was new, to vanquish the great ones was all the delight of my poor little dear soul ! So at her, Burney, — at her, and down with her!
Pàgina xxvi - It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's " Life of Johnson," some sheets of which our readers have doubtless seen round parcels of better books.
Pàgina xlii - I am extremely glad to see you indeed,' he cried, 'but very sorry to see you here. My dear ma'am, why do you stay?— it won't do, ma'am! you must resign!— we can put up with it no longer. I told my good host the Bishop so last night; we are all grown quite outrageous!