(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "I admire the activity of your benevolence," observed Mary, "but everyimpulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion,exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth was prepared to see him in his glory; and she could not helpin fancying that in displaying the good proportion of the room, itsaspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her,as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) From the entrance-hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with arapturous air, the fine proportion and the finished ornaments, theyfollowed the servants through an ante-chamber, to the room where LadyCatherine, her daughter, and Mrs.
His resentment was in proportion to the distress ofhis circumstances--and he was doubtless as violent in his abuse of meto others as in his reproaches to myself.
It was a large, well proportionedroom, handsomely fitted up.
But in what proportions it should be divided amongst thelatter depended on the will of the parents.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionatespeed through the neighbourhood.
The round-gametable, on the other hand, was so boisterously merry as materially tointerrupt the contemplations of Mr. Miller, who, not being quite somuch absorbed as he ought to have been, contrived to commit various highcrimes and misdemeanours, which excited the wrath of the fat gentlemanto a very great extent, and called forth the good-humour of the old ladyin a proportionate degree.