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"The child goes away smiling as the mother breaks her heart. By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of a woman for her children in Vanity Fair" (629) #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“So these two were each exemplifying the Vanity of this life, and each longing for what he or she could not get” #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending” (559) #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“The cook looked at the housemaid: the housemaid looked knowingly at the footman- the awful kitchen inquisition which sits in judgement in every house, and knows everything” (561)#engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

"if you are not guilty, have a care of appearance: which are as ruinous as guilt” #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“The reign of Amelia might have be over, and that friend William’s love might have flowed into a kinder channel” (552)#engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“The senseless chatter of the younger men at mess was more than ever jarring. What cared he, a man on the high road to forty, to know how many snipes Lieutenant Smith had shot, or what were the performances of Ensign Brown’s mare?” (551) #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

"We were two to love, and two to pray--/ Yes, two, O God, who cried to Thee,/ Though Nothing didst Thou say./ Coldly Thou sat'st behind the Sun (XIII) #ENGL445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“’ I know you have all sneered at me in the country for being a Tory. Miss Crawley is liberal enough to suite any fancy. She is a Republican in principle, and despises everything like rank or title”’, (427) #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“As long as we have a man’s body, we play our Vanities upon it” #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“Men and officers began their rally from their hurts, the gardens and places of public resort swarmed with maimed warriors old and young, who, just rescued out of death, fell to gambling, and gaiety, and love-making, as people of Vanity Fair will do” #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“he was proud of his hatred as of everything else” . sounds like a lovely father #ENGL445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

“it is hard to say which pang it was that tore the proud father’s heart most keenly- that his son should have gone out of the reach of his forgiveness, or that the apology which his own pride expected should have escaped him” (439 #ENGL445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

Porphyria's Lover took a darker turn than I expected when i started the poem #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

"They were both so silent that the ticktock of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia clock on the mantelpiece became quite rudely audible" (271) #engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

"But i don't brag about that" (278). As Mr. Osborne brags about how good a father he is.#engl445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

A young boy in the army writing home to his mother and yet his bad spelling is somehow important enough to mention (288) #ENGL445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

The only reason Amelia dislikes Dobbin, one of the few good guys in this novel, is purely for vain reasons (293)#ENGL445

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"George said. 'I don't care for a little poverty;and I think, without vanity, i've talents enough to make my own way'" (302), i doubt this is true #ENGL445

[delaney siemens @DS_Ucalgary]

"looking sadly and vaguely back: always to be pining for something which, when obtained, brought doubt and sadness rather than pleasure: here was the lot of our poor little creatures, and harmless lost wanderer in the great struggling crowed of Vanity Fair"(319)#ENGL445