Monica Descalzi

The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart; and by a manoeuvre of Mrs Bennet, had to wait for their carriages a quarter of an hour after every body else was gone, which gave them time to see how heartily they were wished away by some of the family.
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Jane Austen

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.
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Jane Austen

YouTube video by The House Of Bronte Haworth church by moonlight. #history #bronte

Haworth church & graveyard by night 👻
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@nickholland.bsky.social
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a group of people are swimming in the ocean and one of them is waving ALT: a group of people are swimming in the ocean and one of them is waving

On such a full sea are we now afloat.
JC 4.3
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Now will it best avail your majesty
To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France.
1H6 3.1
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My ships
Are safely come to road.
MV 5.1
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#Turner

There be land-rats and water-rats.
MV 1.3
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Art by Chris Dunn

a woman says " look where that 's got me " while smiling ALT: a woman says " look where that 's got me " while smiling

To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores.
WT 4.4
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One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
MAAN 2.3
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The water of my land.
M 5.3
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a man without a shirt is laying on a bed with his eyes closed ALT: a man without a shirt is laying on a bed with his eyes closed

I am half afraid he will have need of washing.
MWW 3.3
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The sea is mine.
AC 2.1
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How much salt water thrown away in waste!
RJ 2.3
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Why, who cries out on pride,
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea?
AYLI 2.7
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JAQUES
By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found
you.
ORLANDO
He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you
shall see him.
JAQUES
There I shall see mine own figure.
AYLI 3.3
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a man wearing glasses is holding a book in his hand and making a funny face . ALT: a man wearing glasses is holding a book in his hand and making a funny face .

With a book, he was regardless of time.
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Happy #BookLoversDay! 📚
Jane Austen

She was at least free from the offence of Mr Darcy's farther notice; though often standing within a very short distance of her, quite disengaged, he never came near enough to speak.
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Jane Austen

She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr Collins's conversation to herself.
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Jane Austen

Who was the real Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s mixed-race heroine? Austen scholar Paula Byrne makes the case that the intriguing character from Sanditon, her unfinished novel, was likely based on a real woman

We do not know if Austen intended Miss Lambe to marry, or whether her fortune would prove to be a blessing or a burden. But her mere presence on the page unsettles the image we have of Austen’s world.
Fascinating piece by Paula Byrne
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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen & Her Wild Side: A Visit with Devoney Looser Austen Chat · Episode

Jane Austen, from mild to wild. @devoney.bsky.social talks to Breckyn Wood about her new book
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Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
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Jane Austen
Robert William Buss,The Ghost Story

He assured her that as to dancing, he was perfectly indifferent to it; that his chief object was by delicate attentions to recommend himself to her, and that he should therefore make a point of remaining close to her the whole evening.
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Jane Austen

She was teazed by Mr Collins, who continued most perseveringly by her side, and though he could not prevail with her to dance with him again, put it out of her power to dance with others.
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Jane Austen

That his two sisters and Mr Darcy, however, should have such an opportunity of ridiculing her relations was bad enough, and she could not determine whether the silent contempt of the gentleman, or the insolent smiles of the ladies, were more intolerable.
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Jane Austen

Happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed.
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Jane Austen

Belated Happy World Embroidery Day then! Fascinating projects.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
JC 4.3
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a statue of a woman with wings covering her face with her hands . ALT: a statue of a woman with wings covering her face with her hands .

Man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
MM 2.2
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O, let him marry her.
MM 1.4
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a woman is sitting in a chair with her mouth open and looking at the camera . ALT: a woman is sitting in a chair with her mouth open and looking at the camera .

Quite athwart
Goes all decorum.
MM 1.3
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