“ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart ”
Jane Austen, Emma (1815). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
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| Source | Emma |
| Topic | heart tenderness charm |
| Date | 1815 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/158/158-h/158-h.htm |
Context
“Miss Woodhouse, how ungrateful I have been!»
Such expressions, assisted as they were by every thing that look and manner could do, made Emma feel that she had never loved Harriet so well, nor valued her affection so highly before.
«There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,» said she afterwards to herself. «There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction, I am sure it will. It is tenderness of heart which makes my dear father so generally beloved—which gives Isabella all her popularity.—I have it not—but I know how to prize and respect it.—Harriet is my superior in all the charm and all the felicity it gives.” source
Such expressions, assisted as they were by every thing that look and manner could do, made Emma feel that she had never loved Harriet so well, nor valued her affection so highly before.
«There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,» said she afterwards to herself. «There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction, I am sure it will. It is tenderness of heart which makes my dear father so generally beloved—which gives Isabella all her popularity.—I have it not—but I know how to prize and respect it.—Harriet is my superior in all the charm and all the felicity it gives.” source
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