Austen Said:

Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"Fanny was good-natured enough."
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 2
  • Text ID: 00123
"Dear mama, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe together—or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia—or, she never heard of Asia Minor—or she does not know the difference between water-colours and crayons!—How strange!—Did you ever hear anything so stupid?"
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 2
  • Text ID: 00130
"But, aunt, she is really so very ignorant!—Do you know, we asked her last night which way she would go to get to Ireland; and she said, she should cross to the Isle of Wight. She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no other island in the world. I am sure I should have been ashamed of myself, if I had not known better long before I was so old as she is. I cannot remember the time when I did not know a great deal that she has not the least notion of yet. How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns!"
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 2
  • Text ID: 00134
"Yes,"
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 2
  • Text ID: 00135
"and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers."
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 2
  • Text ID: 00137
"Yes, I know there is, till I am seventeen. But I must tell you another thing of Fanny, so odd and so stupid. Do you know, she says she does not want to learn either music or drawing."
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 2
  • Text ID: 00139
Her brother was not handsome: no, when they first saw him he was absolutely plain, black and plain; but still he was the gentleman, with a pleasing address.
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 5
  • Text ID: 00326
he was plain, to be sure, but then he had so much countenance, and his teeth were so good, and he was so well made, that one soon forgot he was plain;
  • Novel: Mansfield Park
  • Character: Speaking together Maria Bertram and Julia Bertram
  • Link to text in chapter 5
  • Text ID: 00328
Not a tolerable woman's part in the play. Anything but that, my dear Tom. It would be impossible to fill it up.