Sublime

Isabella will continue to use such hyperbolic language, which in Austen’s novels is consistently a sign of mental vacuity or insincerity.

satyr."

the realities around him; more and more he comes to live in a world of his own imagination; and because he sincerely believes he can do no wrong, he becomes a menace to the men and women who have to work under his direction,”

I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.

"So I have murdered Sibyl Vane,"

Mr Hawley’s disgust at the notion of the Pioneer being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political – as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant – was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr Brooke’s own family. The result had oozed forth gradually, like

The black catalogue of stratagems was now increased. I had inspired you with the most vehement terrors: I had filled your mind with faith in shadows and confidence in dreams: I had depraved the imagination of Pleyel:

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

It is too much the custom in politics to describe a political opponent as utterly inhuman, as utterly careless of his country, as utterly cynical, which no man ever was since the beginning of the world.