 | Lucie Armitt - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 224 pages
...Middlemarch, for example, with Jane Austen's Emma (1816). On the opening page of Austen's text we read: 'Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with...the world with very little to distress or vex her.'" The ironies of this sentence are present (albeit in a nuanced fashion) from the start, conveyed in... | |
 | Lindsay Green - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 180 pages
...would have understood the significance of those connections and descriptions. Ready reference quotes * 'Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a...the world with very little to distress or vex her.' (p. 37) » 'Highbury, the large and populous village almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield,... | |
 | Charles Baxter, Peter Turchi - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 276 pages
...wife. (Pride and Prejudice) Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best...the world with very little to distress or vex her. (Emma) Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement,... | |
 | Marc Arabyan - Discourse analysis - 2001 - 362 pages
...of Northampton [...]. [5] Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable house and a happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best...twenty-one years in the world with very little to vex or distress her. 3 A ce propos, Benveniste fait l'observation suivante : La conscience de soi n'est... | |
 | Ron Norman, Anne Watkiss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 262 pages
...burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...to unite some of the best blessings of existence. Energy eojjals mass times the speed of light squared. I have found it impossible to carry the heavy... | |
 | John Salinsky - Diseases in literature - 2002 - 304 pages
...how easy it is to read Jane Austen, is the first sentence of Emma, introducing our wayward heroine: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a...the world with very little to distress or vex her. Reading on, we learn that Emma lives with her elderly father in a peaceful village called Highbury,... | |
 | Michael Krausz - Philosophy - 2010 - 436 pages
...Woodhouse was "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition," and that she "seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence;...years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."4 What we do not learn is how rich or handsome she was; nor do we learn anything about her facial... | |
 | Michael Paul Gallagher - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 156 pages
...character but Emma has a lot to learn before she can cross the threshold into loving and being loved: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...the world with very little to distress or vex her. As in every Austen novel, the plot moves through obstacles towards married love; in this case those... | |
 | Shawna Mullen - Self-Help - 2003 - 244 pages
...be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete." Jane Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, PP Youth Emma Woodhouse, . . . handsome, clever, and rich,...the world with very little to distress or vex her. EM Youthful Folly ". . . and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 320 pages
...predictable. The value of various kinds of 'possession' is one which Austen addresses in her opening sentence: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a...years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.157 152 JANE AUSTEN AND THE MORALITY OF CONVERSATION As I discussed in the previous chapter, the... | |
| |
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. 
