"Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother"
"She had an excellent heart;- her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them"
"Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure."
THE DREAM by Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Or scorn, or pity on me take,
I must the true relation make,
I am undone to-night:
Love in a subtil dream disguised,
hath both my heart and me surprised,
Whom never yet he durst attempt t' awake;
Nor will he tell me for whose sake
He did me the delight,
Or spite;
But leaves me to inquire,
In all my wild desire,
Of Sleep again, who was his aid,
And Sleep, so guilty and afraid,
As since he dares not come within my sight.
IF I COULD WRITE WORDS by Spike Milligan (1918-2002),
written in 1956
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
"I love you."
"And after all, Marianne, after all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant—it is not fit--it is not possible that it should be so."
