Emma and Auden Flashcards

Handsome, Clever and Rich (459 cards)

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“Auden uses _ to attract attention” - John Blair

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Imperatives

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“Trash is the inevitable result whenever a person tries to do for himself by _ what can only be done by study or prayer” - Auden

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Writing poetry

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“The Enemy was and still is the _” - Unpublished book, 1939

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Politician

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“People _ in order to be read” - Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents

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Write

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“The only reason for doing anything is for _” - Auden’s Journal

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Fun

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“Auden, who followed Dante in believing that the deepest human motive is creative _” - Boly

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Joy

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“The need to find an acceptable expression for his _ was the first technical obstacle” - Clive James

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Homosexuality

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“The natural world is for Auden a place of _” - Marchetti

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Unfreedom

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Ward is derived from keep safe/guard and surgery is derived from _

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Done by hand

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Auden set sail for New York in _

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1939

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Auden became religious from _

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1944

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WWII was from _

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1939 - 1945

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Throughout which period was the Spanish Civil War?

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1936 - 1939

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“_ is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most” - Auden

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Love

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Structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species - Jung

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Collective Unconscious

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Auden considers himself to be an “_” of society, not a “prophet”

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Interpreter

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“Poetry makes nothing _” - Auden

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Happen

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Rebecca Price Parkin suggests the tone of In Praise of Limestone can be summarised into “intimacy, humility, and _”

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Tenderness

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In In Praise of Limestone there is a “relaxed but intimate and knowing contact with _.” - Rebecca Price Parkin

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Reality

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In Praise of Limestone “presents to us a _, which corresponds to, certain moral qualities of human behavior” - Anthony Hecht

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Climate

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Up There has less sestets than Down There and is catalectic (metrically incomplete) as it commonly only has _ syllables per line

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  1. “Now a schooner on which a lonely only//Boy sails North or approaches _” - Up There (1963)
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Coral islands

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  1. “All it knows of a changing world it has to guess from _” - Up There (1963)
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Children

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  1. “A starving spider spins for the occasional fly: No _ recalls it” - Up There (1963)
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Clock

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3. "Can't _ now what they couldn't bear to part with" - Up There (1963)
Name
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2. "Only _ cling to items out of their past they have no use for" - Up There (1963)
Women
27
1. "Men would never have come to need _" - Up There (1963)
An attic
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Down There mainly uses _ syllable lines and is formed into orderly sestets
12
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8. "A cellar never takes umbrage; it takes us as we are, explorers, _" - Down There (1963)
Homebodies
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7. "The rooms we talk and work in always look _" - Down There (1963)
Injured
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6. "A father sends the younger boys to fetch something for _ from down there" - Down There (1963)
Mother
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5. "Its flag-stoned vault is not for _" - Down There (1963)
Girls
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4. "Where light and heat can never spoil what sun _" - Down There (1963)
Ripened
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3. "We dine at _" - Down There (1963)
Street-level
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2. "A hold by occupation made to smell _" - Down There (1963)
Human
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1. "Caves water-scooped from _ were our first dwellings" - Down There (1963)
Limestone
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1. "Dear water, clear water, _ in all your streams" - Streams (1953)
Playful
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2. "If I were a plainsman I should _ us all" - Plains
Hate
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1. "A potter's cuff, a gravel that as concrete//Will _ any space which it encloses" - Plains
Unsex
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6. "A culture is not better than its _" - Woods (1952)
Woods
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5. "The trees encountered on a country stroll//Reveal a lot about a country's _" - Woods (1952)
Soul
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4. "A fruit in vigor or a dying leaf, utters its private _ for descent" - Woods (1952)
Idiom
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3. "Cuckoos mock in Welsh, and doves create//In rustic _" - Woods (1952)
English
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2. "Nor thought the lightning-kindled bush to tame, but, flabbergasted, fled the _" - Woods (1952)
Useful flame
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1. "Sylvan meant savage in those _ woods" - Woods (1952)
Primal
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5. "A _ hurries to inspect his rain-gauge" - Winds (1953)
Paterfamilias
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4. "When I seek an image//For our _ city" - Winds (1953)
Authentic
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3. "Winds make weather;weather//Is what _ people are//Nasty about" - Winds (1953)
Nasty
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2. "That _ Friday when [..] One bubble brained creature said I am loved therefore I am" - Winds (1953)
Pliocene
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1. "But the _ winds that blow//Round law-court and temple" - Winds (1953)
Boneless
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There is no regular rhyme scheme In In Praise of Limestone, which mirrors the irregularity of the _
Limestone landscape
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In In Praise of Limestone midway through the poem it shifts from addressing humanity to directing it to a _
Single person
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10. "When I try to imagine a faultless love [...] What I see is the _ landscape" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Limestone
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9. "The oceanic whisper://I am the solitude that asks and ; that is how I shall set you free" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Promises nothing
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8. "On our plains there is room for armies to drill; rivers//Wait to be _ " - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Tamed
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7. "Come! purred the clays and _" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Gravels
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6. "How evasive is your humour, how accidental//Your kindest kiss, how permanent is _" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Death
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5. "Born lucky//Their legs have never encountered the fungi//And _ of the jungle" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Insects
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4. "Their eyes have never looked into _ space" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Infinite
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3. "Examine this region//Of short distances and _ places" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Definite
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2. "A secret system of caves and _" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Conduits
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1. "The one landscape that we, _,//Are consistently homesick for" - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
The inconstant ones
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In praise of limestone is about “the beauty of mutable, imperfect _ nature,” - James Persoon
Human
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In Law Like Love there is no formal scheme or meter however there are perfect rhymes, showing that even non static law can _
Be understood
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10. "Like love we often weep,//Like love we seldom _" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Keep
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9. "Like love we don't know where or why,//Like love we can't compel or _" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Fly
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8. "thinking it absurd//To identify Law with some other _" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Word
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7. "Law is _,//And always the soft idiot softly Me" - Law, Like Love (1939)
We
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6. "Others say, Law is our Fate;//Others say, Law is our _" - Law, Like Love (1939)
State
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5. "Law is neither wrong nor right,//Law is only _//Punished by places and by times" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Crimes
71
4. "Law is _" - Law, Like Love (1939)
The Law
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3. "Law is the sense of the _" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Young
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2. "Law is the _ of the old" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Wisdom
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1. "Law, say the _, is the sun" - Law, Like Love (1939)
Gardeners
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A yew is a tree which symbolises _
Death
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In Refugee Blues the rhyme scheme is _ focussing on constant refrain and rhythmic blues
AAB
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10. "Dreamed I saw _ with a thousand floors//A thousand windows and a thousand doors" - Refugee Blues (1939)
A building
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9. "Saw the _ in the trees;//They had no politicians and sang at their ease" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Birds
79
8. "Saw fish swimming as if _,//Only ten feet away, my dear, only ten feet away" - Refugee Blues (1939)
They were free
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7. "Went down to the harbour and stood upon the _" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Quay
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6. "If we let them in, they will steal our daily _" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Bread
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5. "But we are still _, my dear, but we are still _" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Alive
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4. "If you've got no passport you're officially _" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Dead
84
3. "In the village churchyard there grows an old _" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Yew
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2. "Yet there's no place for us, my _, yet there's no place for us" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Dear
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1. "Some are living in mansions, some are living in _" - Refugee Blues (1939)
Holes
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As I Walked Out One Evening is in _ form, however not syllabically, rather Auden sticks to three stressed syllables per line
Ballad
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11. "The clocks had ceased their _, And the deep river ran on" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Chiming
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10. "And Time will have his _//To-morrow or to-day" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Fancy
90
9. "Time watches from the shadow//And coughs when you would _" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Kiss
91
8. "'O let not Time deceive you,//You cannot _ Time" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Conquer
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7. "But all the clocks in the city//Began to whirr and _" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Chime
93
6. "The years shall run like _" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Rabbits
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5. "I'll love you till the _//Is folded and hung up to dry" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Ocean
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4. "I'll love you//Till China and _ meet" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Africa
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3. "Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no _" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Ending
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2. "And down by the _//I heard a lover sing" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Brimming river
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1. "The crowds upon the pavement//Were fields of harvest _" - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Wheat
99
The second part of Musee des Beaux arts is in _ form
Octave
100
Auden starts Musee des Beaux Arts with regular _, however this soon drifts between longer and shorter lines
Pentameter
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10. "And the expensive delicate ship [...] had somewhere to get to and _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Sailed calmly on
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9. "The white legs disappearing into the green _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Water
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8. "The sun shone//As _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
It had to
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7. "But for him it was not an important _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Failure
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6. "The ploughman may//Have heard the splash, the _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Forsaken cry
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5. "In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away//Quite leisurely from _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
The Disaster
107
4. "Even the dreadful _ must run its course" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Martyrdom
108
3. "The aged are reverently, passionately waiting//For the _ birth" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Miraculous
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2. "While someone else is _ or opening a window or just walking dully along" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Eating
110
1. "About suffering they were never wrong, The Old _" - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Masters
111
In A Dream every line is perfectly how many syllables long?
6
112
A Dream uses a half rhyme scheme throughout the three stanzas of what?
ABCDDCA
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7. "And I, _, felt//Unwanted and went out" - A Dream (1936)
Submissive
114
6. "That you then [...] confessed another _" - A Dream (1936)
Love
115
5. "What hidden worm of guilt//Or what _//Am I the victim of" - A Dream (1936)
Malignant doubt
116
4. "Indifferent to those//Who sat with hostile _" - A Dream (1936)
Eyes
117
3. "Our whisper woke no _" - A Dream (1936)
Clocks
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2. "Were beds, and we in one//In a _ lay" - A Dream (1936)
Fare corner
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1. "Though the _ is gone,//Its dream still haunts to-day" - A Dream (1936)
Night
120
In The Quarry the quatrains, regular ABAB rhymes, four beats and _ create a sense of drumming
Tetrameter
121
The Quarry is written in traditional _ form, invoking an atmosphere of impending war
Ballad
122
In The Quarry the question and answer could be switched between both a man and a _, changing the meaning
Man
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10. "Their _ are heavy on the floor//And their eyes are burning" - The Quarry (1934)
Boots
124
9. "No I promised to love you, dear,//But I must be _" - The Quarry (1934)
Leaving
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8. "Stay with me here!//Were the _ you swore deceiving, deceiving?" - The Quarry (1934)
Vows
126
7. "They have passed the farmyard already, dear//And now they are _" - The Quarry (1934)
Running
127
6. "Why, they are none of them wounded, dear,//None of the _" - The Quarry (1934)
Forces
128
5. "Perhaps a change in their orders, dear. Why are you _?" - The Quarry (1934)
Knelling
129
4. "Only their usual manoeuvres, dear,//Or perhaps a _" - The Quarry (1934)
Warning
130
3. "O what is that light I see _ so clear" - The Quarry (1934)
Flashing
131
2. "Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,//The _" - The Quarry (1934)
Soldiers coming
132
1. "O what is that _ which so thrills the ear" - The Quarry (1934)
Sound
133
Auden's rhyme scheme in Lullaby is mostly using _ rhymes, contrasting hugely with the largely regular meter
Slant
134
In Lullaby Auden mainly uses _ tetrameter to mimic the soothing sound and rhythm sued in Children's songs
Trochaic
135
10. "Nights of _ let you pass" - Lullaby (1937)
Insult
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9. "Noons of _ see you fed" - Lullaby (1937)
Dryness
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8. "Find the _ enough" - Lullaby (1937)
Mortal
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7. "Beauty, _, vision dies" - Lullaby (1937)
Midnight
139
6. "Among the glaciers and the rocks//The hermit's _ ecstasy" - Lullaby (1937)
Carnal
140
5. "Soul and _ have no bounds" - Lullaby (1937)
Body
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4. "Let the living _ lie,//Mortal, guilty but to me//The entirely beautiful" - Lullaby (1937)
Creature
142
3. "the grave//Proves the child _" - Lullaby (1937)
Ephemeral
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2. "Time and _ burn away//Individual beauty" - Lullaby (1937)
Fevers
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1. "Lay your sleeping head, my love,//Human on my _" - Lullaby (1937)
Faithless arm
145
Surgical Ward is a _, the octave conforms however the sestet doesn't; there is no volta, no rhyme and non-uniform meter
Sonnet
146
6. "Only _ is shared//and anger, and the idea of love" - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Happiness
147
5. "And cannot//imagine _" - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Isolation
148
4. "And believe//In the common world of the _" - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Uninjured
149
3. "Even a scratch we can't recall when _" - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Cured
150
2. "His knowledge of the world is restricted to//the treatment that the _ are giving" - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Instruments
151
1. "They are and _; that is all they do" - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Suffer
152
In This Lunar Beauty Auden primarily uses _ (a metrical opposite to iambic) and juxtaposes strong rhymes with slant ones
Trochees
153
In This Lunar Beauty the _ could signify rising,prominence,setting and birth,life,death
Three part structure
154
6. "Love shall not near//_//Nor sorrow take//His endless look" - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
The sweetness here
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5. "But this was never//A _ endeavour" - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Ghost's
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4. "For time is _//And the heart's changes//Where ghost has haunted" - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Inches
157
3. "And _ is//The loss of this" - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Daytime
158
2. "This like a _//Keeps other time" - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Dream
159
1. "This lunar beauty//Has no _//Is complete and early" - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
History
160
The rhyme scheme in Roman Wall Blues draws upon the simplicity of rhyming _
Couplets
161
The purpose of Hadrian's Wall was to keep an intact _ empire
Roman
162
Who is the speaker in Roman Wall Blues?
A soldier on Hadrian's Wall
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6. "When I'm a _ with only one eye//I shall do nothing but look at the sky" - Roman Wall Blues
Veteran
164
5. "She gave me a ring but I _ it away;//I want my girl and I want my pay" - Roman Wall Blues
Diced
165
4. "Piso's a _, he worships a fish" - Roman Wall Blues
Christian
166
3. "The _ creeps over the hard grey stone" - Roman Wall Blues
Mist
167
2. "I'm a _ soldier, I don't know why" - Roman Wall Blues
Wall
168
Roman Wall Blues was aired as a radio play under the name Hadrian's Wall in _
1937
169
1. "Over the heather the wet wind blows,//I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my _" - Roman Wall Blues
Nose
170
Post 1932 Auden could make connections between "individual guilts and pleasures and the crisis that was eating away at _" - Hamilton
European Civilization
171
How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the second stanza of The Letter (1928)?
8
172
How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the first stanza of The Letter (1928)?
9
173
8. "I, decent with the _, move//Different or with a different love" - The Letter (1928)
Season
174
7. "If love not seldom has received//An unjust answer, was _" - The Letter (1928)
Deceived
175
6. "Your _ comes, speaking as you,//Speaking of much, but not to come" - The Letter (1928)
Letter
176
5. "Thought warmed to _ through and through" - The Letter (1928)
Evening
177
4. "Shall see, shall pass, as we have _" - The Letter (1928)
Seen
178
3. "Love's worn _ re-begun" - The Letter (1928)
Circuit
179
2. "Cry out against the storm, and found//The year's _ a completed round" - The Letter (1928)
Arc
180
1. "From the very first coming down//Into a new _ with a frown" - The Letter (1928)
Valley
181
The Unknown Citizen uses mostly _ as a meter
Anapest
182
The Unknown Citizen has rhyme schemes, however they are irregular and _
Interwoven
183
During the late 1930s while other poets to be shifting to _ verse, Auden sticks with rhyme
Unrhymed
184
Who is the narrator in The Unknown Citizen?
Government bureaucrat
185
10. "Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have _" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Heard
186
9. "Was he free? Was he _? The question is absurd" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Happy
187
8. "When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was _, he went" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
War
188
7. "He held the proper opinions for the _" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Time of Year
189
6. "He was fully sensible to the advantages of the _//And had everything necessary to the Modern Man" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Installment Plan
190
5. "His reactions to advertisements were _ in every way" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Normal
191
A person who stops a strike early by going back to work
A scab
192
4. "Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his _" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Views
193
3. "He was a saint,//For in everything he did he served the _" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Greater Community
194
2. "He was found by the _ to be//One against whom there was no official complaint" - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Bureau of Statistics
195
1. "To _/07 M 378 This Marble Monument is Erected by the State" (epigraph) - The Unknown Citizen (1939)
JS
196
"Emma's perfection is limited only by her _" - Stuart Tave
Imagination
197
Frank Churchill's masculinity is "dandified and _" - Darryl Jones
Continental
198
"The false world of _ becomes the instrument for illustrating the "real" world of the novel" - Edward White
Literature
199
Austen's father was both a teacher and a _
Farmer
200
Define - Marriage Market
The scope of young females looking for husbands and suitors looking for wives
201
"_ doesn't add lovers to the list" - Austen
Knowledge
202
What form is The Three Sisters written in?
Epistolary
203
"I am the happiest creature in _, for I have received an offer of marriage from Mr. Watts" - Mary Stanhope (The Three Sisters)
The World
204
"Marriage is legal _" - Mary Wollstonecraft (1790)
Prostitution
205
Bath is described as "All vapor, shadows, _ and confusion"
Smoke
206
Jane Austen would not marry _ for fear of marrying for the wrong reasons
Harris
207
Emma was published in 1815 and dedicated to the _
Prince Reagent
208
"It lacked incident and _" - John Murray
Romance
209
"There was no _ in it" - Maria Edgeworth (Author of Belinda)
Story
210
"One is not _ a woman, but rather becomes a woman" - Simone de Beavouir
Born
211
"A man attaches himself to a _ - not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself" - Simone de Beavouir
Woman
212
"Gender reality is _ which means, quite simply, that it is real only to the extent that it is performed" - Judith Butler
Performative
213
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of _" - Charlotte Lucas (Pride and Prejudice)
Chance
214
"All _ works... are "rewritten", if only unconsciously, by the societies which read them" - Terry Eagleton
Literary
215
Austen crafts an "Interior _" for Emma - Kathryn Sutherland
Space
216
Elizabeth Bennett is drawn to the idea of marrying Mr. Darcy after she sees his comfortable home, _
Pemberley
217
"nothing is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without _" - Jane Austen to Fanny Knight (1814)
Affection
218
"Is there one among the _, who would not protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman?" {Bennett}
Sex
219
"Her {Bennett's} heart did _ that he {Mr Darcy} had done it for her {Lydia}" - Pride and Prejudice
Whisper
220
"Emma's idée fixe, _, is her only fixation" - Bruce Stovel (Article on The New Emma)
Love
221
"Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with Mr Knightley, first in _ and affection"
Interest
222
Austen has an "intense moral _" - FR Leavis
Preoccupation
223
"The first _ deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden" - Phaedrus
Appearance
224
After Mr Knightley confronts her Emma is awoken from her "supreme _ and serene delusion" - Andrew Wright
Self-confidence
225
Emma is a heroine "whom no-one but myself will much _" - Jane Austen
Like
226
"Emma may have been called Pride and _" - Mark Schorer
Perception
227
How much could a gentleman in government or trade be expected to earn annually in the 19th century?
£52 - £134
228
How much could an agricultural labourer be expected to earn annually in the 19th century?
£30
229
How much roughly did a pianoforte cost in Jane Austen's period?
£35
230
Define - Savoir Faire
The ability to act or speak appropriately in social situations
231
"Emma begins the novel confident that she knows who are the _ and the best in Highbury" - John Mullan
Chosen
232
"The wishes, the hopes, the confidence [...] were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the _"
Union
233
"Their {Harriet and Emma's} friendship must change into a calmer sort of _"
Goodwill
234
"The stain of _, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed"
Illegitimacy
235
"Such was the blood of _ which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for!"
Gentility
236
"She {Emma} had never been more sensible of Mr Knightley's high _"
Superiority of character
237
"I {Emma} hope so - for at that time {Discussing Martin and Harriet match before} I was _"
A fool
238
"I {Emma} always deserve the _, because I never put up with any other; and. therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer"
Best treatment
239
"These matters are always a _ till it is found out that everybody knows them" {Mr Weston}
Secret
240
"I do not say when, but perhaps you may guess where - in the building which N. takes M. for better, for _" {Emma}
Worse
241
"By dint of fancying so many errors, have been in love with you {Emma} ever since you were _ at least" {Mr Knightley}
Thirteen
242
"I {Emma} know what my manners were to you {Jane}. So _! I had always a part to act. It was a life of deceit!"
Cold and artificial
243
"She {Harriet} would be a _ in every way"
Loser
244
"She {Emma} felt that in quitting Donwell, he {Mr Knightley} must be sacrificing a great deal of independence of _"
Hours and habits
245
"While he {Mr Woodhouse} lived, it must be only _"
An engagement
246
"Poor _ little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming"
Mr Woodhouse
247
"Faultless in spite of all her {Emma's} _"
Faults
248
"My {Mr Knightley's} dearest _ [...] for dearest you will always be, whether the even of this hour's conversation"
Emma
249
"A man would always wish to give a woman a better _ than the one he takes her from" {Mr Knightley}
Home
250
"How was it {Everyone moving away} to be _?"
Endured
251
"If to these losses the loss of Donwell were to be added, what would remain of cheerful or of _ within their {Woodhouse's} reach?"
Rational society
252
"_ would not do for her {Emma}. It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father"
Marriage
253
"Oh! Had she {Emma} never brought _ forward! Had she left her where she ought [...] None of this dreadful sequel would have been"
Harriet
254
"Such an elevation on her side! Such _ on his!"
A debasement
255
"To understand, thoroughly understand her {Emma's} own _, was the first endeavour"
Heart
256
"I {Harriet} hope I know better now than to care for _, or to be suspected of it"
Mr Martin
257
"How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how _, had been her {Emma's} conduct"
Unfeeling
258
"It darted through her {Emma} with the speed of an arrow that _ must marry no one but herself!"
Mr Knightley
259
"_ Harriet"
Poor
260
"Emma thought first of herself, and then of _" {Frank's attachment announcement}
Harriet
261
"The world is not theirs, nor the world's _" {Emma}
Law
262
"She {Emma} wanted to be of use to her {Jane}; wanted to show a value for her _"
Society
263
"He took her {Emma's} hand, and certainly was on the point of carrying it to his lips, when, from some _, he suddenly let it go"
Fancy or other
264
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete _ belong to any human disclosure"
Truth
265
"Emma was obliged to think of the _; and the remembrance of all her former fanciful and unfair conjectures"
Pianoforte
266
"She {Emma} sat musing on the difference of woman's _"
Destiny
267
"It was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of _ at the time"
Rational satisfaction
268
"And how suffer him {Mr Knightley} to leave her {Emma} without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, or _"
Common kindness
269
"Never had she {Emma} felt so agitated, mortified, grieved [...] how could she have been so brutal, so cruel to _!"
Miss Bates
270
"Emma recollected, _, was sorry, but tried to laugh it off"
Blushed
271
"Find somebody for me. I am in no hurry. Adopt her; educate her" {Frank} "And make her like _" {Emma}
Myself
272
"How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and _ it all the rest of his life!" {Frank}
Rued
273
"A slight _ showed that it could pain her {Miss Bates}"
Blush
274
"Emma could not resist" "Pardon me, but you will be limited as to _" {Emma to Miss Bates}
Number
275
"He {Frank} said nothing worth hearing - _ - admired without intelligence - listened without knowing"
Looked without seeing
276
"I {Frank} want a change [...] I am sick of England, and would leave it tomorrow if i could" {Frank} "You are sick of _" {Emma}
Prosperity and Indulgence
277
Involving or happening between two people in private
Tete-a-tete
278
"Mr Knightley and Harriet! It was an odd tete-a-tete; but she {Emma} was _ to see it"
Glad
279
"I {Emma} am delighted to find that you {Mr Knightley} can vouchsafe to let your _ wander"
Imagination
280
"I {Mr Knightley} have lately imagined that I saw _ of attachment between them {Jane and Frank}"
Symptoms
281
"These letters were but the vehicle for _. It was a child's play, chosen to conceal a deeper game on Frank Churchill's part"
Gallantry and trick
282
"Emma, you are a great _" {Mr Weston}
Dreamer
283
"I {Frank} am a great _. I dream of everybody at Highbury"
Dreamer
284
"He {Mr Knightley} might wish to escape any of Emma's errors of _"
Imagination
285
"There were symptoms of intelligence between them {Jane and Frank} - he {Mr Knightley} thought so at least - _"
Symptoms of admiration
286
Mr Knightley is "So superior to _" {Harriet}
Mr Elton
287
"When I {Harriet} saw him {Mr Knightley} coming - his noble look [...] from perfect _ to perfect happiness"
Misery
288
"I {Harriet} shall never _"
Marry
289
"Now I {Harriet} will _; and it is my particular wish to do it in your {Emma} presence, that you may see how rational I am grown"
Destroy it all
290
"How much more must _, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight?"
An imaginist
291
"The _ was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse {Harriet's} being quickened again by injurious courtesy"
Fever
292
"We {Mr Knightley and Emma} are not really so much _ as to make it at all improper"
Brother and sister
293
"Not your {Emma's} vain spirit, but your _. If one leads you wrong, I {Mr Knightley} am sure the other tells you of it"
Serious spirit
294
"Mr Knightley leading _ to the set! Never had she {Emma} been more surprised seldom more delighted, than at that instant"
Harriet
295
"There was not one among the whole row of _ who could be compared with him {Mr Knightley}"
Young men
296
"Mrs Elton must be asked to begin the _ [...] which interfered with all their wishes of giving Emma that distinction"
Ball
297
"She {Emma} had no doubt as to his {Frank} being less _"
In love
298
"If a separation of two months should not have _ him {Frank}, there were dangers and evils before her {Emma}"
Cooled
299
"Mr Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs Elton's beginning to _"
Talk to him
300
"She {Mrs Weston} thinks nobody _ to him {Frank}"
Equal
301
"I {Mrs Elton} feel very thankful that I have so many (resources) myself as to be quite independent of _"
Society
302
"I {Mr Knightley} do not admire it. It is too small - wants strength. It is like a woman's _ {Frank's writing}"
Writing
303
"_ are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse" {John Knightley}
Letters
304
"Emma could not but rejoice to hear that she {Jane} had a _"
Fault
305
"The extent of your {Mr Knightley's} _ may take you by surprise some day or other" {Emma}
Admiration
306
"_ Jane Fairfax" {Emma}
Poor
307
"My {Emma's} resolution is taken as to noticing _. I shall have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can"
Jane Fairfax
308
Mrs. Elton is "Self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant and _"
Ill-Bred
309
"Knightly! [,,,] {Frank is}Always the first person to be thought of! Frank Churchill comes as regularly into my _"
Mind
310
"It would be a charming introduction for you {Emma to visit bath}, who have lived so _ a life"
Secluded
311
"Her {Mrs Elton's} society would certainly do Mr Elton no good. _ would have been a better match"
Harriet
312
"Mrs Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own _"
Importance
313
"I {Emma} mention no names; but _ the man who changes Emma for Harriet"
Happy
314
"Harriet is my {Emma's} superior in all the _ and all the felicity it gives"
Charm
315
"The _ little friend - suggested to her {Emma} the idea of Harriet's succeeding her in his {Frank's} affections"
Beautiful
316
"He {Frank} is undoubtedly very much in love - everything _ it" {Emma}
Denotes
317
"Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being _"
In love
318
"This feeling of everything's being dull and _ about the house! I must be in love" {Emma}
Insipid
319
"To complete every other recommendation, he {Frank} had almost told her {Emma} that he _"
Loved her
320
"He {Frank} was more in love with her than _ had supposed"
Emma
321
"The loss of the _ - the loss of the young man - and all that the young man might be feeling!"
Ball
322
"Women will have their little nonsenses and _" {Gentlemen probably thought}
Needless cares
323
"Men never know when things are _ or not" {Ladies probably thought}
Dirty
324
"The party did not break up without Emma's being positively secured for the _ by the hero of the evening"
Two first dances
325
"When she {Emma} saw that [...] there had been a smile of secret delight, she had less scruple in the _"
Amusement
326
"Emma wished he {Frank} would be less _"
Pointed
327
"True _ only could have promoted it {Sending the Piano}" {Frank}
Affection
328
"The _ themselves are the very finest sort for baking [...] some of Mr Knightley's most liberal supply"
Apples
329
"Don't class us together, Harriet. My {Emma's} _ is no more like hers {Jane's} than a lamp is like sunshine"
Playing
330
"Perfect _, even in memory, is not common"
Happiness
331
"Emma would then resign her place to Miss Fairfax whose _ [...] was infinitely superior to her own"
Performance
332
"She {Emma} knew the limitation of her own _ too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit"
Powers
333
"He {Mr Knightley} is as happy as possible by himself [...] He has no occasion to marry, either to fill up his _ or his heart"
Time
334
"He {Frank} had found them {Knightley, Cox and Cole} in general a set of _, sensible men"
Gentlemanlike
335
"Emma divined what everybody present must be thinking. She was his {Frank's} _, and everybody must perceive it"
Object
336
"I {Emma} am perfectly convinced myself that Mr Dixon is a principal in the _"
Business
337
"A water party; and by some accident she {Jane} was _. He {Mr Dixon} caught her"
Falling overboard
338
"She {Emma} felt that she should like to have had the _ {of Cole's invitation}"
Power of refusal
339
"Hum! Just the trifling, _ I took him {Frank} for" {Mr Knightley}
Silly fellow
340
"There was nothing to denote him {Frank} unworthy of the distinguished honour which her {Emma's} _ had given him"
Imagination
341
Cutting his {Frank's} hair in London "Did not accord with the rationality of plan, the _, or even the unselfish warmth of heart"
Moderation in expense
342
"Emma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day by hearing that he was gone off to London _"
To have his hair cut
343
"Emma in her own mind determined that [...] he showed a very amiable inclination to settle early in life, and to marry from _"
Worthy motives
344
"_ between Miss Fairfax and me {Frank} is quite out of the questions"
Intimacy
345
"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a _" {Emma}
Reserved person
346
"Emma watched, and decided that [...] Mr Knightley certainly had not done him {Frank} _"
Justice
347
"She {Emma} had no doubt of what Mr Weston was often _ {Her and Frank}"
Thinking about
348
Emma wondered whether the suspicion of their pairing "Which had taken strong _ of her mind, had ever crossed his"
Possession
349
Commonly "It was to be rather supposed that Miss Taylor had formed Miss Woodhouse's character, than _ Miss Taylor's"
Miss Woodhouse
350
"Even a _ would have been sufficient {To replace Mr Elton}; but nothing else, she feared {Emma} would cure her"
Robert Martin
351
"The charm of _ to occupy the many vacancies of harriet's mind was not to be talked away"
An object
352
"It did not appear that she {Hawkins} was at all Harriet's _. She brought no name, no blood, no alliance"
Superior
353
"He {Elton} had not thrown himself away - he had gained a woman of _"
£10,000
354
"_, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable {Miss Hawkins}"
Handscombe
355
"_ is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations"
Human nature
356
Emma became curious about Ms Hawkins "Which could conduce to place the Martins under proper subordination in her _"
Fancy
357
"While he {Mr Woodhouse} _ that young people would be in such a hurry to marry - and to marry strangers too"
Lamented
358
"The young man's {Martin's} conduct, and his sister's, seemed the result of _, and she {Emma} could not but pity them"Real
Real feeling
359
"She {Emma} was obliged to _"
Stop and think
360
"If it were love, it might be simple, single, _ love on {Jane's} her side alone"
Successless
361
"Jane Fairfax was very _, remarkably _"
Elegant
362
"There were moments of _ in which her {Emma's} conscience could not quite acquit her {from wanting to be like Jane}"
Self-examination
363
"Jane remained with them, sharing as another daughter, in all the _ pleasures of an elegant society"
Rational
364
"Her disposition {Jane's} and _ were equally worthy of all that friendship could do"
Abilities
365
"At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's _ with regard to Jane Fairfax"
Brain
366
"There is nobody's praise that could give us so much pleasure as Miss _" {Miss Bates}
Woodhouse's
367
"I {Miss Bates} really must, in justice to Jane, apologise for her writing so short a _"
Letter
368
"To take a dislike to a young man [...] was unworthy the real _ which she was always used to acknowledge in him {Mr Knightley}"
Liberality of mind
369
"My {Emma} idea of him {Frank} is that he [...] has the power as well as wish of being _ agreeable"
Universally
370
"His {Frank Churchill's} _ disgust me"
Letters
371
"You {Mr Knightley} are very fond of _ little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority" {Emma}
Bending
372
"Depend upon it, Emma, a _ man would find no difficulty in it {Visiting Frank's father}" {Mr Knightley}
Sensible
373
"You are the worst judge in the world, Mr Knightley, of the difficulties of _" {Emma}
Dependence
374
"Where the wound had been given, there must the _ must be found, if anywhere"
Cure
375
"Tried to console her with all her heart and understanding - really for the time convinced that Harriet was the _ of the two"
Superior creature
376
"_ could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father, from which she was so pointedly excluded"
Resentment
377
"Oh that I {Emma} had been satisfied with persuading her not to accept _. There I was quite right: that was well done of me"
Young Martin
378
"It was foolish, _, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, assuming too much"
It was wrong
379
"He {Mr Elton} must know that in _ and consequence she was greatly his superior"
Fortune
380
"How she {Emma} could have been so _!"
Deceived
381
"My visits to Hartfield have been for yourself {Emma} only' and the _ I {Mr Elton} received"
Encouragement
382
"Everybody had their _" {Mr Elton}
Level
383
"But Mr Elton had only drunk _ enough to elevate his spirits not at all to confuse his intellects"
Wine
384
"Hoping - fearing - adoring - ready to _ if she {Emma} refused him {Mr Elton}"
Die
385
"She {Emma} was _" {Upon realising Mr Elton's intentions}
Vexed
386
"There are _ in all families, you know" {Mr Weston}
Secrets
387
"a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled {Frank and Emma} in their friends' _"
Imaginations
388
"There was something in the _, in the idea, of Mr Frank Churchill, which always interested her {Emma}"
Name
389
"Can it be possible for this man {Elton} to be beginning to _ his affections from _ to me {Emma}? - Absurd"
Transfer
390
"Little matters on which the _ happiness of private life depends"
Daily
391
"Emma was rather in dismay when only half _afterwards he {Mr Elton} began to speak of other things"
A minute
392
"Are you {John Knightley} imagining me {Emma} to be Mr Elton's _?"
Object
393
"With men he {Mr Elton} can be _ and unaffected" {John Knightley}
Rational
394
"A _ is so high in the class of their {Single men's} pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties" {Emma}
Dinner engagement
395
"Never had his {Mr Elton's} _ been stronger, nor his eyes more exulting than when he next looked at her {Emma}"
Smile
396
"Indeed you should take care of yourself {Emma} as well as of your _ {Harriet}" {Mr Elton}
Friend
397
"Mr Elton's would be _ when he knew her {Harriet's} state"
Depressed
398
"but only Jane Fairfax one knows to be so very accomplished and _, and exactly Emma's age" {Mrs John Knightley}
Superior
399
"Southend is an _ place" {Mr Woodhouse}
Unhealthy
400
"It makes me {Emma} envious and miserable; I who have never seen it! _ is prohibited"
Southend
401
"My poor _ Isabella" {Mr Woodhouse}
Dear
402
"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for _"
Themselves
403
"Objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is, in truth, the great point of _" {Emma}
Inferiority
404
"Never could I {Emma} expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always _ and always right in any man's eyes"
First
405
"But I {Emma} have never been in love; it is not my way, or my _"
Nature
406
"Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a _ family who lived a little way out of Highbury"
Poor sick
407
"Mr Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with _"
Herself
408
"_ spoke for her {Harriet}"
Emma
409
"It is so much beyond anything I {Harriet} deserve [...] He {Mr Elton} is so very _"
Superior
410
"The course of true love never did run _" {Emma}
Smooth
411
"There does seem to be something in the air of _ which gives love exactly the right direction" {Emma}
Hartfield
412
"One half of the world cannot understand the _ of the other" {Emma}
Pleasures
413
"Till they {Men} do fall in love with well-informed _ instead of handsome faces" {Emma}
Minds
414
"There can scarcely be a doubt that her {Harriet's} father is a _ - and a _ of good fortune" {Emma}
Gentleman
415
"She {Harriet} is not a _ girl" {Mr Knightley}
Sensible
416
"He {Mr Martin} is as much her {Harriet's} _ in sense as in situation. Emma, your infatuation about that girl blinds you"
Superior
417
"Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act _"
Rationally
418
"His {Mr Martin's} mind has more true _ than Harriet Smith could understand."
Gentility
419
"How cheerful, how animated, how auspicious, how busy their {Mr Elton's family} _ all are!"
Imaginations
420
"You {Harriet} confined to the _ of the illiterate and vulgar all your life!"
Society
421
"It would have grieved me {Emma} to lose your acquaintance {Harriet's}, which must have been the consequence of your marrying _"
Mr Martin
422
"I {Emma} shall not give you any advice, Harriet. [...] This is a point which you must settle with your own _"
Feelings
423
"This man is almost too _ to be in love [...] there may be a hundred different ways of being in love"
Gallant
424
"You have made her too tall, Emma" "Emma knew that she had, but would not _ it"
Own
425
"No husbands and wives in the case at present indeed, as you {Emma} _"
Observe
426
"{Mrs Weston} would _ whenever I {Emma} asked"
Sit
427
"It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a _ [...] But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her"
Proper object
428
"John {Knightley} loves Emma with a _, and therefore not a blind affection"
Reasonable
429
"Can you _ anything nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether - face and figure?"
Imagine
430
"How can Emma imagine she has anything to learn herself while Harriet is presenting such a delightful _?"
Inferiority
431
"Emma is spoiled b being the _ of her family"
Cleverest
432
"Of this great _ between Emma and harriet Smith, I {Mr Knightley} think it a bad thing"
Intimacy
433
"You {Harriet} might not see one in a hundred with _ so plainly written as in Mr Knightley"
Gentleman
434
"{Mr Martin} is very plain, remarkably plain; but that is nothing compared with his entire want of _"
Gentility
435
"Emma watched through the fluctuations of this speech {Harriet's} and saw no alarming _"
Symptoms of love
436
"There can be no doubt of your {Harriet} being a _ daughter"
Gentleman's
437
"A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of person to raise my {Emma's} _"
Curiosity
438
"Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be _. For Mrs Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet everything"
Useful
439
"_ certainly was not clever"
Harriet
440
"{Emma} would improve {Harriet}; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good _"
Society
441
"Those soft blue eyes {Harriet's}, all all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the _ of Highbury"
Inferior society
442
"{Harriet} was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly _"
Admired
443
"Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of _"
Somebody
444
"{Miss Bates} was a great talker upon little matters [...] full of trivial communications and _"
Harmless gossip
445
"She {Miss Bates} had no intellectual _ to make atonement to herself"
Superiority
446
"Mr Perry was _, gentlemanlike man"
An intelligent
447
Mr Weston's family had been "rising into _ and property"
Gentility
448
"Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her _"
Fortune
449
"What was _ to him {Mr Woodhouse} he regarded as unfit for anybody "
Unwholesome
450
"A great deal better to choose than be chosen, to excite _ rather than feel it {Regarding Mr Weston}"
Gratitude
451
"He {Mr Woodhouse} could not meet her in conversation, rational or _"
Playful
452
"Poor Mr Elton! [...] There is nobody in _ who deserves him"
Highbury
453
"Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always _ {To Mr Woodhouse}"
Disagreeable
454
"Highbury, the large and populous village [...] afforded her {Emma} no _"
Equals
455
"Success supposes _" {Said by Mr Knightley}
Endeavour
456
"{Miss Taylor} Intelligent, well-informed, _, gentle"
Useful
457
"_ never thinks of herself"
Emma
458
Austen wrote in what period and after what period?
In the Romantic period after the Age of Reason (Neoclassical Era)
459
Auden wrote in what period?
Modernist and Postmodernist period