The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the...
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It's a truth universally acknowledged...
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The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I bel...
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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that...
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
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The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if rea...
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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is really very well for a novel." Such is the commo...
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of hum...
