She thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

I am delighted with the book! I could spend my whole life reading it. - Catherine Morland.

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.

Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself.