More stuff on this today, not from me, not from Sam Soon, but from the queen of romantic comedy herself, Ms Jane Austen.
"Lizzy,'' s
aid her father, "I have given him my consent. He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse any thing, which he condescended to ask. I now give it to you, if you are resolved on having him. But let me advise you to think better of it. I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior..."
Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.
"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly [to Captain Harville], "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful
feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you [men]capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as -- if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!"
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[Frederick Wentworth's note to Anne]
"... Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? ... You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W."
Colonel
Brandon was now as happy as all those who best loved him believed he deserved to be: in Marianne he was consoled for every past affliction: her regard and her society restored his mind to animation, and his spirits to cheerfulness; and that Marianne found her own happiness in forming his, was equally the persuasion and delight of each observing friend. Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband as it had once been to Willoughby.
Incidentally, I thought that Kate Winslet (Marianne) and Alan Rickman (Col Brandon; and also Prof Snape in Harry Potter!) eclipsed the leading couple, Emma Thompson (Elinor) and Hugh Grant (Edward) in the show. There was zero chemistry between them, ET looked a little too old and HG looked out of place in period costume. KW did very well with both AR and Greg Wise who played Willoughby.
"Lizzy,'' s
aid her father, "I have given him my consent. He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse any thing, which he condescended to ask. I now give it to you, if you are resolved on having him. But let me advise you to think better of it. I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior..." Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.
Now which 19th century lady would turn this man down?
Pride & Prejudice
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"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly [to Captain Harville], "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful
feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you [men]capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as -- if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!" ...
[Frederick Wentworth's note to Anne]
"... Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? ... You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W."
Persuasion
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Colonel
Brandon was now as happy as all those who best loved him believed he deserved to be: in Marianne he was consoled for every past affliction: her regard and her society restored his mind to animation, and his spirits to cheerfulness; and that Marianne found her own happiness in forming his, was equally the persuasion and delight of each observing friend. Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband as it had once been to Willoughby. Sense & Sensibility
Incidentally, I thought that Kate Winslet (Marianne) and Alan Rickman (Col Brandon; and also Prof Snape in Harry Potter!) eclipsed the leading couple, Emma Thompson (Elinor) and Hugh Grant (Edward) in the show. There was zero chemistry between them, ET looked a little too old and HG looked out of place in period costume. KW did very well with both AR and Greg Wise who played Willoughby.
Scene at the wedding:
Waiting for the bride also must touch things
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