All 18 Uses of
felicity
in
Pride and Prejudice
- If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.†
Chpt 6
- Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before.†
Chpt 7
- Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.†
Chpt 7
- Have you anything else to propose for my domestic felicity?†
Chpt 10 *
- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.†
Chpt 12
- She saw her in idea settled in that very house, in all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow; and she felt capable, under such circumstances, of endeavouring even to like Bingley's two sisters.†
Chpt 18
- In vain did Elizabeth endeavour to check the rapidity of her mother's words, or persuade her to describe her felicity in a less audible whisper; for, to her inexpressible vexation, she could perceive that the chief of it was overheard by Mr. Darcy, who sat opposite to them.†
Chpt 18
- If therefore she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.†
Chpt 20
- Chapter 25 After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday.†
Chpt 25
- "Oh, my dear, dear aunt," she rapturously cried, "what delight! what felicity!†
Chpt 27
- Only let me assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in marriage.†
Chpt 38
- Mrs. Bennet was diffuse in her good wishes for the felicity of her daughter, and impressive in her injunctions that she should not miss the opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible—advice which there was every reason to believe would be well attended to; and in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.†
Chpt 41
- Chapter 42 Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.†
Chpt 42
- It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity—to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.†
Chpt 42
- She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.†
Chpt 49
- But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was.†
Chpt 50
- They shook hands with great cordiality; and then, till her sister came down, she had to listen to all he had to say of his own happiness, and of Jane's perfections; and in spite of his being a lover, Elizabeth really believed all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself.†
Chpt 55
- I wish I could say, for the sake of her family, that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an effect as to make her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman for the rest of her life; though perhaps it was lucky for her husband, who might not have relished domestic felicity in so unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous and invariably silly.†
Chpt 61
Definition:
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(felicity as in: domestic felicity) happiness or luck; or an instance or source of such