Heart Quotes by Ann Radcliffe

9 Heart quotes by Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe’s prose carries a quiet intensity, and these nine excerpts reveal how she frames love within her atmospheric style. Though brief, the collection hints at the depth of feeling that runs through her work.

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Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

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“She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she looked back upon the past,…

Ann Radcliffe

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Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you…

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“She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of…

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“It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for…

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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the…

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“A strange kind of presentiment frequently, on this day, occurred to her;—it seemed as if her fate rested here, and was by…

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“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame…

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“... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there…

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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

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“Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude…

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“At some distance from the tribunal stood a large iron frame, which Vivaldi conjectured to be the rack, and near it another, resembling, in…

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I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to…

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How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man,…

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“My dear sir,’ said Emily, timidly, ‘what mean those tears?’—they speak, I fear, another language—they plead for me.”

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“And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then, When your eyes roll so. Alas! why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some…

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“Why all this terror?' said he, in a tremulous voice. 'Hear me, Emily: I come not to alarm you; no, by Heaven! I love…

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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough…

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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in…

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“She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction”

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