jane austen love and friendship sparknotes

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing to care for none beyond my own family circle to think meanly of all the rest of the world to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.

I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Knightley, she practically arranged the recent marriage between her former governess, Miss Taylor, and the. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. Love and Friendship is a posthumously published collection of short stories, drama, humor, and other works by Jane Austen, all written at least a decade before her major novels. As she tells her father and her dear friend Mr.

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane austen love and friendship sparknotes