I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression. The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed.
#JaneEyre
Happy Birthday, #CharlotteBrontë!
The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Mrs Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. They had all been very ill-used since she last saw her sister. Two of her girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
That long time have been barren.
AC 2.5
#ShakespeareSunday
So to your pleasures
I am for other than for dancing measures.
AYLI 5.4
#ShakespeareSunday
I have trod a measure. I have flattered a lady.
AYLI 5.4
#ShakespeareSunday
Well then, take a good heart, and counterfeit to be a man.
AYLI 4.3
#ShakespeareSunday
'Tis good to be sad and say nothing.
AYLI 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,
'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'
AYLI 3.5
#ShakespeareSunday
If ever you have look'd on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
If ever sat at any good man's feast,
If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear
And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,
Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.
AYLI 2.7
#ShakespeareSunday
And this our life exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
AYLI 2.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Let me love him for that, and do you love him because I do.
AYLI 1.3
#ShakespeareSunday
What shall be our sport, then?
AYLI 1.2
#ShakespeareSunday
Let me see; what think you of falling in love?
AYLI 1.2
#ShakespeareSunday
Allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman.
AYLI 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother.
AYLI 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
Between the two eldest and herself especially there subsisted a very particular regard. They had frequently been staying with her in town.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
Mrs Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs Bennet and Mrs Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces.
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Jane Austen
The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and agreeable.
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Jane Austen
Mr Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education.
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Jane Austen
On the following Monday Mrs Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn.
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Jane Austen
After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
'I trust the demands of both feeling and duty will be in some measure reconciled by the step in contemplation.'
Arthur Bell Nicholls returns to Haworth and proposes to #CharlotteBrontë for the 2nd time
Lovely post by @nickholland.bsky.social
www.annebronte.org/2026/04/12/a...
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
S 14
#ShakespeareSunday
Now, Mars.
Cor 1.4
#ShakespeareSunday
How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
KL 1.2
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I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space.
H 2.2
#ShakespeareSunday
The meteors of a troubled heaven.
1H4 1.1
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My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night.
KJ 4.2
#ShakespeareSunday
Let all the number of the stars give light
To thy fair way!
AC 3.2
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