Anthologies attract good haters. In the 1790s, the reformer Hannah More blamed their editors for the decay of morals: to let people assume...
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Who was Jane Austen's 'model reader'? And what did she read? A witty new book by a leading Austen expert explores this and more.
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The Jane Austen Book Club, in book and film versions, believes that we can discover ourselves and our dilemmas in Austen's novels.
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, From the Most Eminent Prose Writers. Published by Wells and Lilly,...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Elegant Extracts is a collection of passages from eighteenth century sermons, histories, literature. Jane Austen gave this copy to her niece.
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Page 338 - ... that smoothed his pillow, and administered to his helplessness? Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts ... About this book · Terms of Service · Plain text.
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers. Couverture Richard Alfred Davenport C.& C. Whittingham, 1827
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Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains.
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