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Of her six novels, four Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park and Emma were pub. anonymously during her life-time; and the others, Northanger Abbey written in 1798 and Persuasion, finished in 1816, appeared a few months after her death, when the name of the authoress was divulged.
Judge Buller heard Lord Mansfield say that the object of the exception in regard to Spain and Portugal was to encourage yes, to encourage the smuggling trade. The object was that smugglers should not only escape the effect of their villany, but should be actually encouraged by government in its perpetration.
They were in the environs of Mansfield long before the usual dinner-time, and as they approached the beloved place, the hearts of both sisters sank a little.
Pride and Prejudice is usually considered Jane Austen's best work, although Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion have their ardent admirers. In fact, there is an increasing number of discriminating readers who enjoy almost everything that she wrote.
A week later he came to see me and told me he was "suited," committed to some highly respectable people they were something quite immense in the City who lived on the Bayswater side of the Park. "I daresay it will be rather poor, sir," he admitted; "but I've seen the fireworks, haven't I, sir? it can't be fireworks EVERY night. After Mansfield Street there ain't much choice."
Mansfield had not heard them. And how extraordinary Charmian's eyes had been during that moment when she and he had gazed at one another. He had not known eyes could look like that, as if the whole spirit of a human being were crouching in them, intent. How far away from the eyes the human spirit must often be!
The young Prince accordingly, opened his batteries, but before an entrance could be effected into the town, was obliged to retire at the approach of Count Mansfield with a much superior force. Gertruydenberg was now surrendered to the Spaniards in accordance with a secret negotiation which had been proceeding all the spring, and had been brought to a conclusion at last.
They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learned to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.
To us this may seem very mild and commonplace doctrine, but it was not commonplace in an age when Anglican divines men like Archbishop Markham, Dr. Nowell or Dr. Porteus had revived the base precepts of passive obedience and non-resistance, and when such a man as Lord Mansfield encouraged them.
There was nothing to raise her spirits in the confined and scantily furnished chamber that she was to share with Susan. The smallness of the rooms above and below, indeed, and the narrowness of the passage and staircase, struck her beyond her imagination. She soon learned to think with respect of her own little attic at Mansfield Park, in that house reckoned too small for anybody's comfort.
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