 | Jane Austen - 1892
...young olive-branch. But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be mitsith, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report....on any other man, it would have been nothing ; but bit perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd ! Much as I abominate... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892
...young olive-branch. But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report...." I am excessively diverted. But it is so strange! " " Yes—that is what makes it amusing. Had they fixed on any other man, it would have been nothing... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1905
...young olive-branch. But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report....been nothing; but his perfect indifference, and your 258 pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd ! Much as I abominate writing, I would not give... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1906
...young olive-branch. But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be rnissisli, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report....on any other man, it would have been nothing; but Ms perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd! Much as I abominate... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1906 - 993 pages
...young olive-branch; But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it; You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report....them in our turn ? " " Oh," cried Elizabeth, " I am exceedingly diverted. But it is so strange ! " " Yes, that is what makes ft amusing. Had they fixed... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1906
...young olive-branch. But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report....neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn ? ' ' Oh 1 ' cried Elizabeth, ' I am excessively diverted. But it is so strange ! ' ' Yes ; that is what makes... | |
 | ...Bennet has occasion to complain. But for all his wit, Mr Bennet's view of life is empty and cynical: 'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? ' He can contribute nothing to Elizabeth's moral education beyond the example of an experience to be... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 287 pages
...irresponsibility by describing social relations as an amusing game. "For what do we live," he asks rhetorically, "but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" (p. 364). But the pain that unthinking Lydia visits on the rest of the family proves conclusively how... | |
 | Regin Barreca - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 321 pages
...moral" of their story might be (381). Hapless Mr. Bennet's comment on life itself meanwhile resonates: "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" (364) It is neither the moral of the whole novel nor one the whole novel repudiates. Pnde and Prejudice... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 210 pages
...It is thus no surprise that he should rhetorically, and no more than half ironically, ask Elizabeth, "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" (251). The amusing, and only the amusing, is what he has come to care about. His initial seriousness,... | |
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn ? " " Oh," cried Elizabeth, 
