Maria Edgeworth frasi celebri
Maria Edgeworth: Frasi in inglese
Maria Edgeworth libro The Absentee
Origine: The Absentee
Vivian (1812), ch. 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 8, p. 8.
Vivian, ch. 7; Tales and Novels, vol. 8, p. 80.
“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.
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.
Maria Edgeworth libro Leonora
Leonora (1806), Letter 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 13, p. 5.
“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.
Maria Edgeworth libro Patronage
Patronage (1814), ch. 20; Tales and Novels, vol. 14, p. 245.
D. H. Lawrence, Introduction to These Paintings (1929); cited from James Boulton (ed.) Late Essays and Articles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) pp. 192-3.
Criticism
Maria Edgeworth libro Helen
Helen (1834), ch. 7; Tales and Novels, vol. 19, p. 62.
“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
Maria Edgeworth libro Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent (1800), Preface; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 9.
