We shall stay here at the least a month; and he heartily prays some occasion may detain us longer. MAAN 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

By the clock, 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? M 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. AYLI 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicit, in a love-cause. AYLI 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday

All our yesterdays. M 5.5 #ShakespeareSunday

To-day, to-day, unhappy day. R2 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday

But Elizabeth had now recollected herself, and making a strong effort for it, was able to assure her with tolerable firmness that the prospect of their relationship was highly grateful to her, and that she wished her all imaginable happiness. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

'If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.' #SamuelJohnson Interesting piece by Eleanor Parker www.historytoday.com/archive/out-...

Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza? Do you think it incredible that Mr Collins should be able to procure any woman's good opinion, because he was not so happy as to succeed with you? #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had commanded in telling her story, gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained her composure. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

Engaged to Mr Collins! my dear Charlotte, impossible! #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

Time to share Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem again. Not that I think grief can be rung out, though. #Tennyson

Wishing friends & followers a peaceful New Year.

She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth! How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex To triumph, like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes whom fortune captivates! 3H6 1.4 #Shakespeare Battle of Wakefield, fought #OTD 1460

But on the following morning, every hope of this kind was done away. Miss Lucas called soon after breakfast, and in a private conference with Elizabeth related the event of the day before. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

Poor dear soul! if you were to see what a headache she has. When one is in great pain, you know one cannot feel any blessing quite as it may deserve. #JaneAusten #Emma Jane Austen

There was a solidity in his reflections which often struck her, and though by no means so clever as herself, she thought that if encouraged to read and improve himself by such an example as hers, he might become a very agreeable companion. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

All days in the year. RJ 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. AYLI 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday

I pray you, chide a year together. AYLI 3.5 #ShakespeareSunday

The native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. H 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday

FLEANCE escapes. M 3.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Mrs Bennet wished to understand by it that he thought of paying his addresses to one of her younger girls, and Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

12 out of 12, but it was too easy Jane Austen #JaneAusten www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I wish you a merry Christmas, but no compliments of the Season. #JaneAusten to Cassandra, 25 Dec 1798 #Letters Jane Austen

#JaneAusten Advent Calendar, with Dr Octavia Cox Day 24: The afterlives of Jane Austen's characters youtu.be/86-lY8omM9s?...

Here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow. Going in dismal weather, to return probably in worse. #JaneAusten #Emma Jane Austen

Happy Christmas to those who celebrate, peace & quiet to those who don't. May those struggling with grief, bereavement, disease, mental or physical pain find some empathy and kindness.

You are all to come to Pemberley at Christmas. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

Mrs Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

I remember last Christmas, at a little hop at the Park, he danced from eight o'clock till four, without once sitting down. #JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility Jane Austen

They were prevailed on to stay nearly two months at the Park, and to assist in the due celebration of that festival which requires a more than ordinary share of private balls and large dinners to proclaim its importance. #JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility #Christmas Jane Austen

#JaneAusten Advent Calendar, with Dr Octavia Cox Day 23: Not far enough, to leave misery behind --- Jane Austen's mysterious suitor youtu.be/hJjfRAdEDR8?...

A sense of place & landscape: the links between Jane Austen & Gilbert White @gilbertwhites.bsky.social #JaneAusten youtu.be/1CoQYVcaiR4?...

'My dear sir,' replied Mr Collins, 'I am particularly obliged to you for this friendly caution, and you may depend upon my not taking so material a step without her ladyship's concurrence.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

You had better neglect your relations than run the risk of offending your patroness. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

#JaneAusten Advent Calendar, with Dr Octavia Cox Day 21: Jane Austen's 'mystic' writing process youtu.be/c5g8RP9y0jQ?...

Charlotte would complete the work that the by then elderly Tabby missed without telling her. #CharlotteBrontë #TabbyAykroyd The 12 Days Of Brontë Christmas: Day Eight Lovely post by @nickholland.bsky.social www.annebronte.org/2025/12/21/t...

This carol they began that hour. AYLI 5.3 #ShakespeareSunday Art by Chris Dunn

The apparel oft proclaims the man. H 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

I am in a holiday humour. AYLI 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday

Tell truth and shame the devil! 1H4 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday

Only they That come to hear a merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Will be deceived. H8 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

We shall have a rare letter from him. TN 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday

To feed were best at home. M 3.4 #ShakespeareSunday

Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly. AYLI 2.7 #ShakespeareSunday

Pray, good shepherd. WT 4.4 #ShakespeareSunday #HugovanderGoes, Adoration of the Shepherds

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. LLL 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday