Emma and Auden Flashcards
Handsome, Clever and Rich
“Auden uses _ to attract attention” - John Blair
Imperatives
“Trash is the inevitable result whenever a person tries to do for himself by _ what can only be done by study or prayer” - Auden
Writing poetry
“The Enemy was and still is the _” - Unpublished book, 1939
Politician
“People _ in order to be read” - Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents
Write
“The only reason for doing anything is for _” - Auden’s Journal
Fun
“Auden, who followed Dante in believing that the deepest human motive is creative _” - Boly
Joy
“The need to find an acceptable expression for his _ was the first technical obstacle” - Clive James
Homosexuality
“The natural world is for Auden a place of _” - Marchetti
Unfreedom
Ward is derived from keep safe/guard and surgery is derived from _
Done by hand
Auden set sail for New York in _
1939
Auden became religious from _
1944
WWII was from _
1939 - 1945
Throughout which period was the Spanish Civil War?
1936 - 1939
“_ is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most” - Auden
Love
Structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species - Jung
Collective Unconscious
Auden considers himself to be an “_” of society, not a “prophet”
Interpreter
“Poetry makes nothing _” - Auden
Happen
Rebecca Price Parkin suggests the tone of In Praise of Limestone can be summarised into “intimacy, humility, and _”
Tenderness
In In Praise of Limestone there is a “relaxed but intimate and knowing contact with _.” - Rebecca Price Parkin
Reality
In Praise of Limestone “presents to us a _, which corresponds to, certain moral qualities of human behavior” - Anthony Hecht
Climate
Up There has less sestets than Down There and is catalectic (metrically incomplete) as it commonly only has _ syllables per line
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- “Now a schooner on which a lonely only//Boy sails North or approaches _” - Up There (1963)
Coral islands
- “All it knows of a changing world it has to guess from _” - Up There (1963)
Children
- “A starving spider spins for the occasional fly: No _ recalls it” - Up There (1963)
Clock
- “Can’t _ now what they couldn’t bear to part with” - Up There (1963)
Name
- “Only _ cling to items out of their past they have no use for” - Up There (1963)
Women
- “Men would never have come to need _” - Up There (1963)
An attic
Down There mainly uses _ syllable lines and is formed into orderly sestets
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- “A cellar never takes umbrage; it takes us as we are, explorers, _” - Down There (1963)
Homebodies
- “The rooms we talk and work in always look _” - Down There (1963)
Injured
- “A father sends the younger boys to fetch something for _ from down there” - Down There (1963)
Mother
- “Its flag-stoned vault is not for _” - Down There (1963)
Girls
- “Where light and heat can never spoil what sun _” - Down There (1963)
Ripened
- “We dine at _” - Down There (1963)
Street-level
- “A hold by occupation made to smell _” - Down There (1963)
Human
- “Caves water-scooped from _ were our first dwellings” - Down There (1963)
Limestone
- “Dear water, clear water, _ in all your streams” - Streams (1953)
Playful
- “If I were a plainsman I should _ us all” - Plains
Hate
- “A potter’s cuff, a gravel that as concrete//Will _ any space which it encloses” - Plains
Unsex
- “A culture is not better than its _” - Woods (1952)
Woods
- “The trees encountered on a country stroll//Reveal a lot about a country’s _” - Woods (1952)
Soul
- “A fruit in vigor or a dying leaf, utters its private _ for descent” - Woods (1952)
Idiom
- “Cuckoos mock in Welsh, and doves create//In rustic _” - Woods (1952)
English
- “Nor thought the lightning-kindled bush to tame, but, flabbergasted, fled the _” - Woods (1952)
Useful flame
- “Sylvan meant savage in those _ woods” - Woods (1952)
Primal
- “A _ hurries to inspect his rain-gauge” - Winds (1953)
Paterfamilias
- “When I seek an image//For our _ city” - Winds (1953)
Authentic
- “Winds make weather;weather//Is what _ people are//Nasty about” - Winds (1953)
Nasty
- “That _ Friday when [..] One bubble brained creature said I am loved therefore I am” - Winds (1953)
Pliocene
- “But the _ winds that blow//Round law-court and temple” - Winds (1953)
Boneless
There is no regular rhyme scheme In In Praise of Limestone, which mirrors the irregularity of the _
Limestone landscape
In In Praise of Limestone midway through the poem it shifts from addressing humanity to directing it to a _
Single person
- “When I try to imagine a faultless love […] What I see is the _ landscape” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Limestone
- “The oceanic whisper://I am the solitude that asks and ; that is how I shall set you free” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Promises nothing
- “On our plains there is room for armies to drill; rivers//Wait to be _ “ - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Tamed
- “Come! purred the clays and _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Gravels
- “How evasive is your humour, how accidental//Your kindest kiss, how permanent is _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Death
- “Born lucky//Their legs have never encountered the fungi//And _ of the jungle” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Insects
- “Their eyes have never looked into _ space” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Infinite
- “Examine this region//Of short distances and _ places” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Definite
- “A secret system of caves and _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Conduits
- “The one landscape that we, _,//Are consistently homesick for” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
The inconstant ones
In praise of limestone is about “the beauty of mutable, imperfect _ nature,” - James Persoon
Human
In Law Like Love there is no formal scheme or meter however there are perfect rhymes, showing that even non static law can _
Be understood
- “Like love we often weep,//Like love we seldom _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Keep
- “Like love we don’t know where or why,//Like love we can’t compel or _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Fly
- “thinking it absurd//To identify Law with some other _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Word
- “Law is _,//And always the soft idiot softly Me” - Law, Like Love (1939)
We
- “Others say, Law is our Fate;//Others say, Law is our _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
State
- “Law is neither wrong nor right,//Law is only _//Punished by places and by times” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Crimes
- “Law is _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
The Law
- “Law is the sense of the _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Young
- “Law is the _ of the old” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Wisdom
- “Law, say the _, is the sun” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Gardeners
A yew is a tree which symbolises _
Death
In Refugee Blues the rhyme scheme is _ focussing on constant refrain and rhythmic blues
AAB
- “Dreamed I saw _ with a thousand floors//A thousand windows and a thousand doors” - Refugee Blues (1939)
A building
- “Saw the _ in the trees;//They had no politicians and sang at their ease” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Birds
- “Saw fish swimming as if _,//Only ten feet away, my dear, only ten feet away” - Refugee Blues (1939)
They were free
- “Went down to the harbour and stood upon the _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Quay
- “If we let them in, they will steal our daily _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Bread
- “But we are still _, my dear, but we are still _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Alive
- “If you’ve got no passport you’re officially _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Dead
- “In the village churchyard there grows an old _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Yew
- “Yet there’s no place for us, my _, yet there’s no place for us” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Dear
- “Some are living in mansions, some are living in _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Holes
As I Walked Out One Evening is in _ form, however not syllabically, rather Auden sticks to three stressed syllables per line
Ballad
- “The clocks had ceased their _, And the deep river ran on” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Chiming
- “And Time will have his _//To-morrow or to-day” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Fancy
- “Time watches from the shadow//And coughs when you would _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Kiss
- “‘O let not Time deceive you,//You cannot _ Time” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Conquer
- “But all the clocks in the city//Began to whirr and _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Chime
- “The years shall run like _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Rabbits
- “I’ll love you till the _//Is folded and hung up to dry” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Ocean
- “I’ll love you//Till China and _ meet” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Africa
- “Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Ending
- “And down by the _//I heard a lover sing” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Brimming river
- “The crowds upon the pavement//Were fields of harvest _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Wheat
The second part of Musee des Beaux arts is in _ form
Octave
Auden starts Musee des Beaux Arts with regular _, however this soon drifts between longer and shorter lines
Pentameter
- “And the expensive delicate ship […] had somewhere to get to and _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Sailed calmly on
- “The white legs disappearing into the green _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Water
- “The sun shone//As _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
It had to
- “But for him it was not an important _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Failure
- “The ploughman may//Have heard the splash, the _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Forsaken cry
- “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away//Quite leisurely from _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
The Disaster
- “Even the dreadful _ must run its course” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Martyrdom
- “The aged are reverently, passionately waiting//For the _ birth” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Miraculous
- “While someone else is _ or opening a window or just walking dully along” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Eating
- “About suffering they were never wrong, The Old _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Masters
In A Dream every line is perfectly how many syllables long?
6
A Dream uses a half rhyme scheme throughout the three stanzas of what?
ABCDDCA
- “And I, _, felt//Unwanted and went out” - A Dream (1936)
Submissive
- “That you then […] confessed another _” - A Dream (1936)
Love
- “What hidden worm of guilt//Or what _//Am I the victim of” - A Dream (1936)
Malignant doubt
- “Indifferent to those//Who sat with hostile _” - A Dream (1936)
Eyes
- “Our whisper woke no _” - A Dream (1936)
Clocks
- “Were beds, and we in one//In a _ lay” - A Dream (1936)
Fare corner
- “Though the _ is gone,//Its dream still haunts to-day” - A Dream (1936)
Night
In The Quarry the quatrains, regular ABAB rhymes, four beats and _ create a sense of drumming
Tetrameter
The Quarry is written in traditional _ form, invoking an atmosphere of impending war
Ballad
In The Quarry the question and answer could be switched between both a man and a _, changing the meaning
Man
- “Their _ are heavy on the floor//And their eyes are burning” - The Quarry (1934)
Boots
- “No I promised to love you, dear,//But I must be _” - The Quarry (1934)
Leaving
- “Stay with me here!//Were the _ you swore deceiving, deceiving?” - The Quarry (1934)
Vows
- “They have passed the farmyard already, dear//And now they are _” - The Quarry (1934)
Running
- “Why, they are none of them wounded, dear,//None of the _” - The Quarry (1934)
Forces
- “Perhaps a change in their orders, dear. Why are you _?” - The Quarry (1934)
Knelling
- “Only their usual manoeuvres, dear,//Or perhaps a _” - The Quarry (1934)
Warning
- “O what is that light I see _ so clear” - The Quarry (1934)
Flashing
- “Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,//The _” - The Quarry (1934)
Soldiers coming
- “O what is that _ which so thrills the ear” - The Quarry (1934)
Sound
Auden’s rhyme scheme in Lullaby is mostly using _ rhymes, contrasting hugely with the largely regular meter
Slant
In Lullaby Auden mainly uses _ tetrameter to mimic the soothing sound and rhythm sued in Children’s songs
Trochaic
- “Nights of _ let you pass” - Lullaby (1937)
Insult
- “Noons of _ see you fed” - Lullaby (1937)
Dryness
- “Find the _ enough” - Lullaby (1937)
Mortal
- “Beauty, _, vision dies” - Lullaby (1937)
Midnight
- “Among the glaciers and the rocks//The hermit’s _ ecstasy” - Lullaby (1937)
Carnal
- “Soul and _ have no bounds” - Lullaby (1937)
Body
- “Let the living _ lie,//Mortal, guilty but to me//The entirely beautiful” - Lullaby (1937)
Creature
- “the grave//Proves the child _” - Lullaby (1937)
Ephemeral
- “Time and _ burn away//Individual beauty” - Lullaby (1937)
Fevers
- “Lay your sleeping head, my love,//Human on my _” - Lullaby (1937)
Faithless arm
Surgical Ward is a _, the octave conforms however the sestet doesn’t; there is no volta, no rhyme and non-uniform meter
Sonnet
- “Only _ is shared//and anger, and the idea of love” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Happiness
- “And cannot//imagine _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Isolation
- “And believe//In the common world of the _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Uninjured
- “Even a scratch we can’t recall when _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Cured
- “His knowledge of the world is restricted to//the treatment that the _ are giving” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Instruments
- “They are and _; that is all they do” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Suffer
In This Lunar Beauty Auden primarily uses _ (a metrical opposite to iambic) and juxtaposes strong rhymes with slant ones
Trochees
In This Lunar Beauty the _ could signify rising,prominence,setting and birth,life,death
Three part structure
- “Love shall not near//_//Nor sorrow take//His endless look” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
The sweetness here
- “But this was never//A _ endeavour” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Ghost’s
- “For time is _//And the heart’s changes//Where ghost has haunted” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Inches
- “And _ is//The loss of this” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Daytime
- “This like a _//Keeps other time” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Dream
- “This lunar beauty//Has no _//Is complete and early” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
History
The rhyme scheme in Roman Wall Blues draws upon the simplicity of rhyming _
Couplets
The purpose of Hadrian’s Wall was to keep an intact _ empire
Roman
Who is the speaker in Roman Wall Blues?
A soldier on Hadrian’s Wall
- “When I’m a _ with only one eye//I shall do nothing but look at the sky” - Roman Wall Blues
Veteran
- “She gave me a ring but I _ it away;//I want my girl and I want my pay” - Roman Wall Blues
Diced
- “Piso’s a _, he worships a fish” - Roman Wall Blues
Christian
- “The _ creeps over the hard grey stone” - Roman Wall Blues
Mist
- “I’m a _ soldier, I don’t know why” - Roman Wall Blues
Wall
Roman Wall Blues was aired as a radio play under the name Hadrian’s Wall in _
1937
- “Over the heather the wet wind blows,//I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my _” - Roman Wall Blues
Nose
Post 1932 Auden could make connections between “individual guilts and pleasures and the crisis that was eating away at _” - Hamilton
European Civilization
How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the second stanza of The Letter (1928)?
8
How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the first stanza of The Letter (1928)?
9
- “I, decent with the _, move//Different or with a different love” - The Letter (1928)
Season
- “If love not seldom has received//An unjust answer, was _” - The Letter (1928)
Deceived
- “Your _ comes, speaking as you,//Speaking of much, but not to come” - The Letter (1928)
Letter
- “Thought warmed to _ through and through” - The Letter (1928)
Evening
- “Shall see, shall pass, as we have _” - The Letter (1928)
Seen
- “Love’s worn _ re-begun” - The Letter (1928)
Circuit
- “Cry out against the storm, and found//The year’s _ a completed round” - The Letter (1928)
Arc
- “From the very first coming down//Into a new _ with a frown” - The Letter (1928)
Valley
The Unknown Citizen uses mostly _ as a meter
Anapest
The Unknown Citizen has rhyme schemes, however they are irregular and _
Interwoven
During the late 1930s while other poets to be shifting to _ verse, Auden sticks with rhyme
Unrhymed
Who is the narrator in The Unknown Citizen?
Government bureaucrat
- “Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Heard
- “Was he free? Was he _? The question is absurd” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Happy
- “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was _, he went” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
War
- “He held the proper opinions for the _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Time of Year
- “He was fully sensible to the advantages of the _//And had everything necessary to the Modern Man” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Installment Plan
- “His reactions to advertisements were _ in every way” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Normal
A person who stops a strike early by going back to work
A scab
- “Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Views
- “He was a saint,//For in everything he did he served the _” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Greater Community
- “He was found by the _ to be//One against whom there was no official complaint” - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Bureau of Statistics
- “To _/07 M 378 This Marble Monument is Erected by the State” (epigraph) - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
JS
“Emma’s perfection is limited only by her _” - Stuart Tave
Imagination
Frank Churchill’s masculinity is “dandified and _” - Darryl Jones
Continental
“The false world of _ becomes the instrument for illustrating the “real” world of the novel” - Edward White
Literature
Austen’s father was both a teacher and a _
Farmer
Define - Marriage Market
The scope of young females looking for husbands and suitors looking for wives
“_ doesn’t add lovers to the list” - Austen
Knowledge
What form is The Three Sisters written in?
Epistolary
“I am the happiest creature in _, for I have received an offer of marriage from Mr. Watts” - Mary Stanhope (The Three Sisters)
The World
“Marriage is legal _” - Mary Wollstonecraft (1790)
Prostitution
Bath is described as “All vapor, shadows, _ and confusion”
Smoke
Jane Austen would not marry _ for fear of marrying for the wrong reasons
Harris
Emma was published in 1815 and dedicated to the _
Prince Reagent
“It lacked incident and _” - John Murray
Romance
“There was no _ in it” - Maria Edgeworth (Author of Belinda)
Story
“One is not _ a woman, but rather becomes a woman” - Simone de Beavouir
Born
“A man attaches himself to a _ - not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself” - Simone de Beavouir
Woman
“Gender reality is _ which means, quite simply, that it is real only to the extent that it is performed” - Judith Butler
Performative
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of _” - Charlotte Lucas (Pride and Prejudice)
Chance
“All _ works… are “rewritten”, if only unconsciously, by the societies which read them” - Terry Eagleton
Literary
Austen crafts an “Interior _” for Emma - Kathryn Sutherland
Space
Elizabeth Bennett is drawn to the idea of marrying Mr. Darcy after she sees his comfortable home, _
Pemberley
“nothing is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without _” - Jane Austen to Fanny Knight (1814)
Affection
“Is there one among the _, who would not protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman?” {Bennett}
Sex
“Her {Bennett’s} heart did _ that he {Mr Darcy} had done it for her {Lydia}” - Pride and Prejudice
Whisper
“Emma’s idée fixe, _, is her only fixation” - Bruce Stovel (Article on The New Emma)
Love
“Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with Mr Knightley, first in _ and affection”
Interest
Austen has an “intense moral _” - FR Leavis
Preoccupation
“The first _ deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden” - Phaedrus
Appearance
After Mr Knightley confronts her Emma is awoken from her “supreme _ and serene delusion” - Andrew Wright
Self-confidence
Emma is a heroine “whom no-one but myself will much _” - Jane Austen
Like
“Emma may have been called Pride and _” - Mark Schorer
Perception
How much could a gentleman in government or trade be expected to earn annually in the 19th century?
£52 - £134
How much could an agricultural labourer be expected to earn annually in the 19th century?
£30
How much roughly did a pianoforte cost in Jane Austen’s period?
£35
Define - Savoir Faire
The ability to act or speak appropriately in social situations
“Emma begins the novel confident that she knows who are the _ and the best in Highbury” - John Mullan
Chosen
“The wishes, the hopes, the confidence […] were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the _”
Union
“Their {Harriet and Emma’s} friendship must change into a calmer sort of _”
Goodwill
“The stain of _, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed”
Illegitimacy
“Such was the blood of _ which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for!”
Gentility
“She {Emma} had never been more sensible of Mr Knightley’s high _”
Superiority of character
“I {Emma} hope so - for at that time {Discussing Martin and Harriet match before} I was _”
A fool
“I {Emma} always deserve the _, because I never put up with any other; and. therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer”
Best treatment
“These matters are always a _ till it is found out that everybody knows them” {Mr Weston}
Secret
“I do not say when, but perhaps you may guess where - in the building which N. takes M. for better, for _” {Emma}
Worse
“By dint of fancying so many errors, have been in love with you {Emma} ever since you were _ at least” {Mr Knightley}
Thirteen
“I {Emma} know what my manners were to you {Jane}. So _! I had always a part to act. It was a life of deceit!”
Cold and artificial
“She {Harriet} would be a _ in every way”
Loser
“She {Emma} felt that in quitting Donwell, he {Mr Knightley} must be sacrificing a great deal of independence of _”
Hours and habits
“While he {Mr Woodhouse} lived, it must be only _”
An engagement
“Poor _ little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming”
Mr Woodhouse
“Faultless in spite of all her {Emma’s} _”
Faults
“My {Mr Knightley’s} dearest _ […] for dearest you will always be, whether the even of this hour’s conversation”
Emma
“A man would always wish to give a woman a better _ than the one he takes her from” {Mr Knightley}
Home
“How was it {Everyone moving away} to be _?”
Endured
“If to these losses the loss of Donwell were to be added, what would remain of cheerful or of _ within their {Woodhouse’s} reach?”
Rational society
“_ would not do for her {Emma}. It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father”
Marriage
“Oh! Had she {Emma} never brought _ forward! Had she left her where she ought […] None of this dreadful sequel would have been”
Harriet
“Such an elevation on her side! Such _ on his!”
A debasement
“To understand, thoroughly understand her {Emma’s} own _, was the first endeavour”
Heart
“I {Harriet} hope I know better now than to care for _, or to be suspected of it”
Mr Martin
“How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how _, had been her {Emma’s} conduct”
Unfeeling
“It darted through her {Emma} with the speed of an arrow that _ must marry no one but herself!”
Mr Knightley
“_ Harriet”
Poor
“Emma thought first of herself, and then of _” {Frank’s attachment announcement}
Harriet
“The world is not theirs, nor the world’s _” {Emma}
Law
“She {Emma} wanted to be of use to her {Jane}; wanted to show a value for her _”
Society
“He took her {Emma’s} hand, and certainly was on the point of carrying it to his lips, when, from some _, he suddenly let it go”
Fancy or other
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete _ belong to any human disclosure”
Truth
“Emma was obliged to think of the _; and the remembrance of all her former fanciful and unfair conjectures”
Pianoforte
“She {Emma} sat musing on the difference of woman’s _”
Destiny
“It was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of _ at the time”
Rational satisfaction
“And how suffer him {Mr Knightley} to leave her {Emma} without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, or _”
Common kindness
“Never had she {Emma} felt so agitated, mortified, grieved […] how could she have been so brutal, so cruel to _!”
Miss Bates
“Emma recollected, _, was sorry, but tried to laugh it off”
Blushed
“Find somebody for me. I am in no hurry. Adopt her; educate her” {Frank} “And make her like _” {Emma}
Myself
“How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and _ it all the rest of his life!” {Frank}
Rued
“A slight _ showed that it could pain her {Miss Bates}”
Blush
“Emma could not resist” “Pardon me, but you will be limited as to _” {Emma to Miss Bates}
Number
“He {Frank} said nothing worth hearing - _ - admired without intelligence - listened without knowing”
Looked without seeing
“I {Frank} want a change […] I am sick of England, and would leave it tomorrow if i could” {Frank} “You are sick of _” {Emma}
Prosperity and Indulgence
Involving or happening between two people in private
Tete-a-tete
“Mr Knightley and Harriet! It was an odd tete-a-tete; but she {Emma} was _ to see it”
Glad
“I {Emma} am delighted to find that you {Mr Knightley} can vouchsafe to let your _ wander”
Imagination
“I {Mr Knightley} have lately imagined that I saw _ of attachment between them {Jane and Frank}”
Symptoms
“These letters were but the vehicle for _. It was a child’s play, chosen to conceal a deeper game on Frank Churchill’s part”
Gallantry and trick
“Emma, you are a great _” {Mr Weston}
Dreamer
“I {Frank} am a great _. I dream of everybody at Highbury”
Dreamer
“He {Mr Knightley} might wish to escape any of Emma’s errors of _”
Imagination
“There were symptoms of intelligence between them {Jane and Frank} - he {Mr Knightley} thought so at least - _”
Symptoms of admiration
Mr Knightley is “So superior to _” {Harriet}
Mr Elton
“When I {Harriet} saw him {Mr Knightley} coming - his noble look […] from perfect _ to perfect happiness”
Misery
“I {Harriet} shall never _”
Marry
“Now I {Harriet} will _; and it is my particular wish to do it in your {Emma} presence, that you may see how rational I am grown”
Destroy it all
“How much more must _, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight?”
An imaginist
“The _ was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse {Harriet’s} being quickened again by injurious courtesy”
Fever
“We {Mr Knightley and Emma} are not really so much _ as to make it at all improper”
Brother and sister
“Not your {Emma’s} vain spirit, but your _. If one leads you wrong, I {Mr Knightley} am sure the other tells you of it”
Serious spirit
“Mr Knightley leading _ to the set! Never had she {Emma} been more surprised seldom more delighted, than at that instant”
Harriet
“There was not one among the whole row of _ who could be compared with him {Mr Knightley}”
Young men
“Mrs Elton must be asked to begin the _ […] which interfered with all their wishes of giving Emma that distinction”
Ball
“She {Emma} had no doubt as to his {Frank} being less _”
In love
“If a separation of two months should not have _ him {Frank}, there were dangers and evils before her {Emma}”
Cooled
“Mr Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs Elton’s beginning to _”
Talk to him
“She {Mrs Weston} thinks nobody _ to him {Frank}”
Equal
“I {Mrs Elton} feel very thankful that I have so many (resources) myself as to be quite independent of _”
Society
“I {Mr Knightley} do not admire it. It is too small - wants strength. It is like a woman’s _ {Frank’s writing}”
Writing
“_ are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse” {John Knightley}
Letters
“Emma could not but rejoice to hear that she {Jane} had a _”
Fault
“The extent of your {Mr Knightley’s} _ may take you by surprise some day or other” {Emma}
Admiration
“_ Jane Fairfax” {Emma}
Poor
“My {Emma’s} resolution is taken as to noticing _. I shall have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can”
Jane Fairfax
Mrs. Elton is “Self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant and _”
Ill-Bred
“Knightly! [,,,] {Frank is}Always the first person to be thought of! Frank Churchill comes as regularly into my _”
Mind
“It would be a charming introduction for you {Emma to visit bath}, who have lived so _ a life”
Secluded
“Her {Mrs Elton’s} society would certainly do Mr Elton no good. _ would have been a better match”
Harriet
“Mrs Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own _”
Importance
“I {Emma} mention no names; but _ the man who changes Emma for Harriet”
Happy
“Harriet is my {Emma’s} superior in all the _ and all the felicity it gives”
Charm
“The _ little friend - suggested to her {Emma} the idea of Harriet’s succeeding her in his {Frank’s} affections”
Beautiful
“He {Frank} is undoubtedly very much in love - everything _ it” {Emma}
Denotes
“Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being _”
In love
“This feeling of everything’s being dull and _ about the house! I must be in love” {Emma}
Insipid
“To complete every other recommendation, he {Frank} had almost told her {Emma} that he _”
Loved her
“He {Frank} was more in love with her than _ had supposed”
Emma
“The loss of the _ - the loss of the young man - and all that the young man might be feeling!”
Ball
“Women will have their little nonsenses and _” {Gentlemen probably thought}
Needless cares
“Men never know when things are _ or not” {Ladies probably thought}
Dirty
“The party did not break up without Emma’s being positively secured for the _ by the hero of the evening”
Two first dances
“When she {Emma} saw that […] there had been a smile of secret delight, she had less scruple in the _”
Amusement
“Emma wished he {Frank} would be less _”
Pointed
“True _ only could have promoted it {Sending the Piano}” {Frank}
Affection
“The _ themselves are the very finest sort for baking […] some of Mr Knightley’s most liberal supply”
Apples
“Don’t class us together, Harriet. My {Emma’s} _ is no more like hers {Jane’s} than a lamp is like sunshine”
Playing
“Perfect _, even in memory, is not common”
Happiness
“Emma would then resign her place to Miss Fairfax whose _ […] was infinitely superior to her own”
Performance
“She {Emma} knew the limitation of her own _ too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit”
Powers
“He {Mr Knightley} is as happy as possible by himself […] He has no occasion to marry, either to fill up his _ or his heart”
Time
“He {Frank} had found them {Knightley, Cox and Cole} in general a set of _, sensible men”
Gentlemanlike
“Emma divined what everybody present must be thinking. She was his {Frank’s} _, and everybody must perceive it”
Object
“I {Emma} am perfectly convinced myself that Mr Dixon is a principal in the _”
Business
“A water party; and by some accident she {Jane} was _. He {Mr Dixon} caught her”
Falling overboard
“She {Emma} felt that she should like to have had the _ {of Cole’s invitation}”
Power of refusal
“Hum! Just the trifling, _ I took him {Frank} for” {Mr Knightley}
Silly fellow
“There was nothing to denote him {Frank} unworthy of the distinguished honour which her {Emma’s} _ had given him”
Imagination
Cutting his {Frank’s} hair in London “Did not accord with the rationality of plan, the _, or even the unselfish warmth of heart”
Moderation in expense
“Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day by hearing that he was gone off to London _”
To have his hair cut
“Emma in her own mind determined that […] he showed a very amiable inclination to settle early in life, and to marry from _”
Worthy motives
“_ between Miss Fairfax and me {Frank} is quite out of the questions”
Intimacy
“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a _” {Emma}
Reserved person
“Emma watched, and decided that […] Mr Knightley certainly had not done him {Frank} _”
Justice
“She {Emma} had no doubt of what Mr Weston was often _ {Her and Frank}”
Thinking about
Emma wondered whether the suspicion of their pairing “Which had taken strong _ of her mind, had ever crossed his”
Possession
Commonly “It was to be rather supposed that Miss Taylor had formed Miss Woodhouse’s character, than _ Miss Taylor’s”
Miss Woodhouse
“Even a _ would have been sufficient {To replace Mr Elton}; but nothing else, she feared {Emma} would cure her”
Robert Martin
“The charm of _ to occupy the many vacancies of harriet’s mind was not to be talked away”
An object
“It did not appear that she {Hawkins} was at all Harriet’s _. She brought no name, no blood, no alliance”
Superior
“He {Elton} had not thrown himself away - he had gained a woman of _”
£10,000
“_, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable {Miss Hawkins}”
Handscombe
“_ is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations”
Human nature
Emma became curious about Ms Hawkins “Which could conduce to place the Martins under proper subordination in her _”
Fancy
“While he {Mr Woodhouse} _ that young people would be in such a hurry to marry - and to marry strangers too”
Lamented
“The young man’s {Martin’s} conduct, and his sister’s, seemed the result of _, and she {Emma} could not but pity them”Real
Real feeling
“She {Emma} was obliged to _”
Stop and think
“If it were love, it might be simple, single, _ love on {Jane’s} her side alone”
Successless
“Jane Fairfax was very _, remarkably _”
Elegant
“There were moments of _ in which her {Emma’s} conscience could not quite acquit her {from wanting to be like Jane}”
Self-examination
“Jane remained with them, sharing as another daughter, in all the _ pleasures of an elegant society”
Rational
“Her disposition {Jane’s} and _ were equally worthy of all that friendship could do”
Abilities
“At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma’s _ with regard to Jane Fairfax”
Brain
“There is nobody’s praise that could give us so much pleasure as Miss _” {Miss Bates}
Woodhouse’s
“I {Miss Bates} really must, in justice to Jane, apologise for her writing so short a _”
Letter
“To take a dislike to a young man […] was unworthy the real _ which she was always used to acknowledge in him {Mr Knightley}”
Liberality of mind
“My {Emma} idea of him {Frank} is that he […] has the power as well as wish of being _ agreeable”
Universally
“His {Frank Churchill’s} _ disgust me”
Letters
“You {Mr Knightley} are very fond of _ little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority” {Emma}
Bending
“Depend upon it, Emma, a _ man would find no difficulty in it {Visiting Frank’s father}” {Mr Knightley}
Sensible
“You are the worst judge in the world, Mr Knightley, of the difficulties of _” {Emma}
Dependence
“Where the wound had been given, there must the _ must be found, if anywhere”
Cure
“Tried to console her with all her heart and understanding - really for the time convinced that Harriet was the _ of the two”
Superior creature
“_ could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father, from which she was so pointedly excluded”
Resentment
“Oh that I {Emma} had been satisfied with persuading her not to accept _. There I was quite right: that was well done of me”
Young Martin
“It was foolish, _, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, assuming too much”
It was wrong
“He {Mr Elton} must know that in _ and consequence she was greatly his superior”
Fortune
“How she {Emma} could have been so _!”
Deceived
“My visits to Hartfield have been for yourself {Emma} only’ and the _ I {Mr Elton} received”
Encouragement
“Everybody had their _” {Mr Elton}
Level
“But Mr Elton had only drunk _ enough to elevate his spirits not at all to confuse his intellects”
Wine
“Hoping - fearing - adoring - ready to _ if she {Emma} refused him {Mr Elton}”
Die
“She {Emma} was _” {Upon realising Mr Elton’s intentions}
Vexed
“There are _ in all families, you know” {Mr Weston}
Secrets
“a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled {Frank and Emma} in their friends’ _”
Imaginations
“There was something in the _, in the idea, of Mr Frank Churchill, which always interested her {Emma}”
Name
“Can it be possible for this man {Elton} to be beginning to _ his affections from _ to me {Emma}? - Absurd”
Transfer
“Little matters on which the _ happiness of private life depends”
Daily
“Emma was rather in dismay when only half _afterwards he {Mr Elton} began to speak of other things”
A minute
“Are you {John Knightley} imagining me {Emma} to be Mr Elton’s _?”
Object
“With men he {Mr Elton} can be _ and unaffected” {John Knightley}
Rational
“A _ is so high in the class of their {Single men’s} pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties” {Emma}
Dinner engagement
“Never had his {Mr Elton’s} _ been stronger, nor his eyes more exulting than when he next looked at her {Emma}”
Smile
“Indeed you should take care of yourself {Emma} as well as of your _ {Harriet}” {Mr Elton}
Friend
“Mr Elton’s would be _ when he knew her {Harriet’s} state”
Depressed
“but only Jane Fairfax one knows to be so very accomplished and _, and exactly Emma’s age” {Mrs John Knightley}
Superior
“Southend is an _ place” {Mr Woodhouse}
Unhealthy
“It makes me {Emma} envious and miserable; I who have never seen it! _ is prohibited”
Southend
“My poor _ Isabella” {Mr Woodhouse}
Dear
“There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for _”
Themselves
“Objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is, in truth, the great point of _” {Emma}
Inferiority
“Never could I {Emma} expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always _ and always right in any man’s eyes”
First
“But I {Emma} have never been in love; it is not my way, or my _”
Nature
“Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a _ family who lived a little way out of Highbury”
Poor sick
“Mr Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with _”
Herself
“_ spoke for her {Harriet}”
Emma
“It is so much beyond anything I {Harriet} deserve […] He {Mr Elton} is so very _”
Superior
“The course of true love never did run _” {Emma}
Smooth
“There does seem to be something in the air of _ which gives love exactly the right direction” {Emma}
Hartfield
“One half of the world cannot understand the _ of the other” {Emma}
Pleasures
“Till they {Men} do fall in love with well-informed _ instead of handsome faces” {Emma}
Minds
“There can scarcely be a doubt that her {Harriet’s} father is a _ - and a _ of good fortune” {Emma}
Gentleman
“She {Harriet} is not a _ girl” {Mr Knightley}
Sensible
“He {Mr Martin} is as much her {Harriet’s} _ in sense as in situation. Emma, your infatuation about that girl blinds you”
Superior
“Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act _”
Rationally
“His {Mr Martin’s} mind has more true _ than Harriet Smith could understand.”
Gentility
“How cheerful, how animated, how auspicious, how busy their {Mr Elton’s family} _ all are!”
Imaginations
“You {Harriet} confined to the _ of the illiterate and vulgar all your life!”
Society
“It would have grieved me {Emma} to lose your acquaintance {Harriet’s}, which must have been the consequence of your marrying _”
Mr Martin
“I {Emma} shall not give you any advice, Harriet. […] This is a point which you must settle with your own _”
Feelings
“This man is almost too _ to be in love […] there may be a hundred different ways of being in love”
Gallant
“You have made her too tall, Emma” “Emma knew that she had, but would not _ it”
Own
“No husbands and wives in the case at present indeed, as you {Emma} _”
Observe
“{Mrs Weston} would _ whenever I {Emma} asked”
Sit
“It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a _ […] But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her”
Proper object
“John {Knightley} loves Emma with a _, and therefore not a blind affection”
Reasonable
“Can you _ anything nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether - face and figure?”
Imagine
“How can Emma imagine she has anything to learn herself while Harriet is presenting such a delightful _?”
Inferiority
“Emma is spoiled b being the _ of her family”
Cleverest
“Of this great _ between Emma and harriet Smith, I {Mr Knightley} think it a bad thing”
Intimacy
“You {Harriet} might not see one in a hundred with _ so plainly written as in Mr Knightley”
Gentleman
“{Mr Martin} is very plain, remarkably plain; but that is nothing compared with his entire want of _”
Gentility
“Emma watched through the fluctuations of this speech {Harriet’s} and saw no alarming _”
Symptoms of love
“There can be no doubt of your {Harriet} being a _ daughter”
Gentleman’s
“A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of person to raise my {Emma’s} _”
Curiosity
“Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be _. For Mrs Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet everything”
Useful
“_ certainly was not clever”
Harriet
“{Emma} would improve {Harriet}; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good _”
Society
“Those soft blue eyes {Harriet’s}, all all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the _ of Highbury”
Inferior society
“{Harriet} was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly _”
Admired
“Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of _”
Somebody
“{Miss Bates} was a great talker upon little matters […] full of trivial communications and _”
Harmless gossip
“She {Miss Bates} had no intellectual _ to make atonement to herself”
Superiority
“Mr Perry was _, gentlemanlike man”
An intelligent
Mr Weston’s family had been “rising into _ and property”
Gentility
“Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her _”
Fortune
“What was _ to him {Mr Woodhouse} he regarded as unfit for anybody “
Unwholesome
“A great deal better to choose than be chosen, to excite _ rather than feel it {Regarding Mr Weston}”
Gratitude
“He {Mr Woodhouse} could not meet her in conversation, rational or _”
Playful
“Poor Mr Elton! […] There is nobody in _ who deserves him”
Highbury
“Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always _ {To Mr Woodhouse}”
Disagreeable
“Highbury, the large and populous village […] afforded her {Emma} no _”
Equals
“Success supposes _” {Said by Mr Knightley}
Endeavour
“{Miss Taylor} Intelligent, well-informed, _, gentle”
Useful
“_ never thinks of herself”
Emma
Austen wrote in what period and after what period?
In the Romantic period after the Age of Reason (Neoclassical Era)
Auden wrote in what period?
Modernist and Postmodernist period
