Quotes Flashcards
In an Artist’s Studio quotes
The mirror gave back all her loveliness
A saint, an angel - every canvas means / The one same meaning, neither more nor less
Cousin Kate objectification quotes
cottage maiden -> his plaything
He wore me like a golden knot / He changed me like a glove
So now I moan an unclean thing / Who might have been a dove
Persuasion objectification quotes
had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior birth
elegance of mind and sweetness of character…. inferior value
her bloom had vanished early…her father found little to admire in her
Emma objectification quote
till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty…till the do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after
Cousin Kate male villain quotes
…lured me to his palace-home…To lead a shameless shameful life / His plaything and his love
Noble Sisters male villain quotes
predators - falcon & hound
a chain of gold and silver links
In an Artist’s Studio male villain quotes
He feeds upon her face by day and night
Noble Sisters imprisonment in private sphere quotes
Bird imagery:
pretty page…whistling like a bird
eaglets embroidered on his cap
Persuasion imprisonment in the private sphere quotations
What was a father to do? This was quite a female case, and it would be highly absurd in him, who could be of no use at home, to shut himself up.
Nursing does not belong to a man; it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother’s property.
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced in exertion.
Oliver’s childhood innocence
now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed and fell into his place.
If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of churchwardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the harder.
Oliver corruption and illness
Mr Fang episode: his face a deathly white, and a cold tremble convulsing his whole frame
Burglary episode: a cold deadly feeling crept into the boy’s heart; and he saw or heard no more.
Holy Thursday innocence of children quotes
multitudes of lambs…raising their innocent hands
raising to heaven the voice of song
cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door
Holy Thursday false display quotes
innocent faces clean
walking two & two
grey headed beadles…wands as white as snow
seated in companies
Chimney Sweeper innocence quotes
My father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep / So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
…That curl’d like a lamb’s back.
And the Angel told Tom, if he’d be a good boy, / He’d have God for his father and never want joy
So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
Chimney Sweeper experience quotes
Where are my father and mother, say? / They are both gone up to the church to pray
They clothed me in the clothed of death / And taught me to sing the notes of woe
gone to praise God & his Priest & King / Who make up a heaven of our misery
Link to London: How the Chimney-sweepers cry / Every black’ning Church appalls
