Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or austen:
“I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every womans worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)