“ You are too much a man of the world not to see with the eyes of the world. ”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
|---|---|
| Source | Mansfield Park |
| Topic | eyes world |
| Date | 1814 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/141/141-h/141-h.htm |
Context
“speaking rather lower, “I do not think that I shall ever see Sotherton again with so much pleasure as I do now. Another summer will hardly improve it to me.”
After a moment's embarrassment the lady replied, “You are too much a man of the world not to see with the eyes of the world. If other people think Sotherton improved, I have no doubt that you will.”
“I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.””
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