 | Richard Burton - Fiction - 1909 - 382 pages
...during the closing years of the eighteenth century. The opening sentence of her masterpiece reads : " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Needless to say that " universally " here is applicable to a tiny area of earth observed by a most... | |
 | Harold Herbert Williams, Sir Harold Herbert Williams - English fiction - 1911 - 448 pages
...situation. And what could make a better beginning than the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice ? — " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife." From that beginning we are carried over into the vivacious... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - 264 pages
...opening sentences are always exhilarating. Pride and Prejudice begins with the following words : — It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. This generalisation stimulates interest and sots the reader to examine his own experience, and identify... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - 268 pages
...opening sentences are always exhilarating. Pride and Prejudice begins with the following words : — It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. This generalisation stimulates interest and sets the reader to examine his own experience, and identify... | |
 | Henry Holt - Periodicals - 1917 - 486 pages
...get off so easily before any gathering in the "regne of femynye." Still as in Jane Austen's period, "it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in need of a wife." But the single woman is no longer conversely in need of the "good rich husband." The... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - English fiction - 1920 - 358 pages
...way on most occasions, but it may well be doubted whether any novel starts quite so happily as this : "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife " — after which delightful touch of irony we are immediately introduced to Mr and Mrs Bennet, who... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1920 - 272 pages
...shall venture to call her legal manner. I quote again the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession .of a good fortune must be hi want of a wife." Does not one savor a "Be it known unto all men by these presents" hi the modulation... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson - American wit and humor - 1922 - 596 pages
...truth universally acknowledged" begins Jane Austen in the opening chapter of "Pride and Prejudice" "that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Mrs. Bennett asks Mr. Bennett if he has ever heard that Netherfield Park is to be let at last. He replies... | |
 | Léonie Villard - Women and literature - 1924 - 266 pages
...ear for subtle resonances the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice may lack significance : — " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." This is a rapid short cut to full revelation of the opinions of the Lucases and Bennets on this subject.... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1928 - 570 pages
...repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings ne^fc ensuing, ib., Ch. VIII. 72. ii. It Is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. JANE AUSTEN, Pride & Prej., Ch. I, 7. Nor will it be less my duty faithfully to record disasters mingled... | |
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 
