 | Jane Austen - England - 1816 - 346 pages
...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 - 410 pages
...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 - 242 pages
...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 - 240 pages
...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 - 264 pages
...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 - 268 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1926 - 316 pages
...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 - 268 pages
...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1978 - 284 pages
...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1978 - 284 pages
...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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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. 
