“My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?”
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Emma’
February 1, 2009
Ethics and Estates
July 27, 2007
Impropriety by the Seaside III
Weymouth
“Very lucky–marrying as they did, upon an acquaintance formed only in a public place!–They only knew each other, I think, a few weeks in Bath! Peculiarly lucky!– for as to any real knowledge of a person’s disposition that Bath, or any public place, can give–it is all nothing; there can be no knowledge.”
What [...]
July 3, 2007
Armed Neutrality
The Big Three of The Napoleonic Wars II
Vice-Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
29 September 1758 – 21st October 1805
Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
1800
Lemuel Francis Abbot
National Maritime Museum, UK
If Wellington is regarded as Britain’s greatest soldier, another Georgian must be considered their greatest sailor. Horatio Nelson won three of the most decisive naval [...]
June 19, 2007
Impropiety at Weymouth
Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordan Hill
1816-17
John Constable
National Gallery, London
Ah, Weymouth. Doesn’t it just make you think of Frank Churchill & Jane Fairfax? And Impropriety by the Seaside?
