Frasi di Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth è stata una scrittrice inglese di origine irlandese.

✵ 1. Gennaio 1768 – 22. Maggio 1849
Maria Edgeworth photo
Maria Edgeworth: 19   frasi 0   Mi piace

Maria Edgeworth frasi celebri

Maria Edgeworth: Frasi in inglese

“Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.”

Essay on Irish Bulls (1802), ch. 4; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 123.
Written in collaboration with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth.

“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”

Maria Edgeworth libro Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent, "Continuation of the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 46.

“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”

Letters for Literary Ladies (1795), "Julia and Caroline", Letter 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 13, p. 225.

“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”

"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 213.

“Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.”

"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" (1795); Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 206.

“I have made up my mind to like no novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, yours and my own.”

Jane Austen, letter to her niece, Anna Lefroy, 1814; cited from Valerie Grosvenor Myer Jane Austen, Obstinate Heart (New York: Arcade, 1997) p. 196.
Criticism

Autori simili

Emily Brontë photo
Emily Brontë 36
scrittrice e poetessa inglese
Louisa May Alcott photo
Louisa May Alcott 37
scrittrice statunitense
George Eliot photo
George Eliot 21
scrittrice britannica
Germaine de Staël photo
Germaine de Staël 9
scrittrice francese
Mary Shelley photo
Mary Shelley 23
scrittrice, saggista e biografa inglese
Emily Dickinson photo
Emily Dickinson 314
scrittrice e poetessa inglese
George Gordon Byron photo
George Gordon Byron 40
poeta e politico inglese
John Henry Newman photo
John Henry Newman 57
teologo e filosofo inglese
Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
Percy Bysshe Shelley 23
poeta inglese
Jane Austen photo
Jane Austen 141
scrittrice britannica