Grandison's Heirs: The Paragon's Progress in the Late Eighteenth-century English NovelUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - Počet stran: 187 This book traces the progressive influence and changing manifestations of the Grandisonian hero through important late eighteenth-century novels: Frances Sheridan's Sidney Bidulph, Fanny Burney's Evelina, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. |
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Sheridans Orlando Faulkland To suppose him a phoenix | 53 |
Burneys Lord Orville A pattern for his fellowcreatures | 70 |
Inchbalds Dorriforth Enriched with every virtue | 85 |
Holcrofts Frank Henley Attaining virtues more than human | 105 |
Godwins Ferdinando Falkland This godlike Englishman | 127 |
Austens Fitzwilliam Darcy The best landlord and the best master | 146 |
Select Bibliography | 173 |
Index | 183 |
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Strana 125 - Suckles each herb, and spreads out ev'ry flow'r; Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me; the mine a thousand treasures brings, For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool Earth, my canopy the Skies!
Strana 125 - Ask for what end the heav'nly bodies shine? Earth for whose use? Pride answers, "Tis for mine: For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out ev'ry flow'r; Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew;
Strana 158 - it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule." "Such as vanity and pride." "Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Strana 158 - allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing, to care for none beyond my own family circle, to think meanly of all the rest of the world, to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.
Strana 165 - character, and as she stood before the canvas, on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before; she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.
Strana 151 - Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.—Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself.
Strana 159 - Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous. His pride never deserts him; but with the rich, he is liberal-minded, just, sincere, rational, honourable, and perhaps agreeable,—allowing something for fortune and figure.
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I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald Annibel Jenkins Náhled není k dispozici. - 2003 |