June 2022

Lesson #288: ‘A Part of Every Englishman’s Constitution’: Shakespeare in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814)

📕 ‘You have moral and literary tastes in common. You have both warm hearts and benevolent feelings; and, Fanny, who that heard him read, and saw you listen to Shakespeare the other night, will think you unfitted as companions?’ – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) … Our lesson today is a ‘Reading Comprehension Lesson’, which […]

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Lesson #287: Adjectives, Adverbs, And Intensifier Adverbs in Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch’

📗 But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,

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