edeainfj pointed out the significance of today's date, and I am stealing this idea from her:
RIP
Jane Austen16 Dec 1775 - 18 Jul 1817
Goddess of Writers
Priestess of Irony
In memory of Rev. George Austen's daughter, please leave condolences in the form of quotations &c.
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Date: 2006-07-18 06:01 pm (UTC)"What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."
All hail the inimitable, often imitated, never surpassed, Miss Austen!
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Date: 2006-07-19 03:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-18 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-18 06:32 pm (UTC)~ Northanger Abbey, Ch. 1
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Date: 2006-07-18 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-18 06:47 pm (UTC)I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels. But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?"
"Yes, I am fond of history."
"I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention. The speeches that are put into the heroes' mouths, their thoughts and designs -- the chief of all this must be invention, and invention is what delights me in other books."
((happysigh)) Love. That. Book. A toast to Jane, who surely has her own corner sofa in Heaven's literary salon.
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Date: 2006-07-18 08:00 pm (UTC)On Henry IV: "Henry the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399, after having prevailed on his cousin & predecessor Richard the 2nd to resign it to him, & to retire for the rest of his Life to Pomfret Castle, where he happened to be murdered."
On Henry VI: "I cannot say much for this Monarch's sense. Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian."
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Date: 2006-07-18 08:03 pm (UTC)Run mad as often as you chuse, but do not faint.
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Date: 2006-07-18 09:25 pm (UTC)So, from Love and Freindship:
Never did I see such an affecting scene as was the meeting of Edward and Augustus.
'My life! My soul!' exlcaimed the former. 'My adorable angel!' replied the latter, as they flew into each other's arms. It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself. We fainted alternately on a sofa.
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Date: 2006-07-18 09:47 pm (UTC)We must not forget her mom was a bit of a freak.
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Date: 2006-07-18 11:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-19 02:30 am (UTC)If I'm careful I might be able to dig it out and bring it to you tomorrow.
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:17 am (UTC)very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him."
Marianne here burst forth with indignation--
"Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh!
worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment."
(&c., not &tc., by the way.)
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Date: 2006-07-19 05:10 am (UTC)