 | Mackenzie Bell - 1927 - 528 ページ
...central idea of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is given in the opening sentences of the tale : — " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. " However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
 | Mackenzie Bell - 1927 - 486 ページ
...central idea of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is given in the opening sentences of the tale : — " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. " However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1928 - 570 ページ
...repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings ne^fc ensuing, ib., Ch. VIII. 72. ii. It Is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. JANE AUSTEN, Pride & Prej., Ch. I, 7. Nor will it be less my duty faithfully to record disasters mingled... | |
 | Judith Woolf - 2005 - 192 ページ
...expressions': It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person, human being or individual in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a spouse . . . It advised Virginia Woolf to avoid 'excessive use of the passive voice' and washed its... | |
 | Janet Todd - 2006 - 3 ページ
...Prejudice's opening, which mimics Samuel Johnson's mocking generalisations on the human condition - 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' There follows a quick antiphonal dialogue expressing the marriage of Mr and Mrs Bennet, comically at... | |
 | Suzann Ledbetter - 2006 - 268 ページ
...cotton on their combined wages. In a town where flour sold for $3.50 a sack, they barely scraped by. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife," said Jane Austen. In the case of James Joseph Brown, so does a fortune-hoper infatuated with a red-haired... | |
 | InterLingua.com, Incorporated - 2006 - 435 ページ
...on. EXERCISE 2 Directions: Choose the one best answer to each item. What Is Mrs. Bennet Hoping? Line It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
 | Lee Siegel - 2009 - 304 ページ
...like plates on a table. That's especially plain when her sentences burst with malestyle certainty — "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" (the celebrated first sentence of Pride and Prejudice). Austen ironized such propositions into insubstantiality... | |
 | Christine B. Whelan - 2006 - 256 ページ
...both realized it was really happening." 2s AM Page 62 2s AM Page 63 Chapter 4 Qentlemen Prefer drains It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. JANE AUSTEN, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) JUSTIN IS A 30-YEAR-OLD ASSOCIATE at an international hedge... | |
 | Sharon Cadman Seelig - 2006 - 236 ページ
...like Jane Austen. Halkett even anticipates some of the irony of the opening of Pride and Prejudice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." 29 Loftis, Colonel Joseph BampfieUl's Apology, 248, is inclined to believe that Anne Murray and Joseph... | |
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 
