All 32 Uses of
resolution
in
Emma
- She had resolution enough to pursue her own will in spite of her brother, but not enough to refrain from unreasonable regrets at that brother's unreasonable anger, nor from missing the luxuries of her former home.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- "There does, indeed, seem as little to tempt her to break her resolution at present," said Mrs. Weston, "as can well be; and while she is so happy at Hartfield, I cannot wish her to be forming any attachment which would be creating such difficulties on poor Mr. Woodhouse's account.†
Chpt 1.5-6
- But for Harriet's sake, or rather for my own, and as there are no husbands and wives in the case at present, I will break my resolution now."†
Chpt 1.5-6
- They now walked on together quietly, till within view of the vicarage pales, when a sudden resolution, of at least getting Harriet into the house, made her again find something very much amiss about her boot, and fall behind to arrange it once more.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- Emma did not find herself equal to give the pleased assent, which no doubt he was in the habit of receiving, to emulate the "Very true, my love," which must have been usually administered by his travelling companion; but she had resolution enough to refrain from making any answer at all.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- Now, it so happened that in spite of Emma's resolution of never marrying, there was something in the name, in the idea of Mr. Frank Churchill, which always interested her.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- "I admired your resolution very much, sir," said he, "in venturing out in such weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- Our amiable young man is a very weak young man, if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolution to do right against the will of others.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- But now she made the sudden resolution of not passing their door without going in—observing, as she proposed it to Harriet, that, as well as she could calculate, they were just now quite safe from any letter from Jane Fairfax.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- The good sense of Colonel and Mrs. Campbell could not oppose such a resolution, though their feelings did.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- This was all very promising; and, but for such an unfortunate fancy for having his hair cut, there was nothing to denote him unworthy of the distinguished honour which her imagination had given him; the honour, if not of being really in love with her, of being at least very near it, and saved only by her own indifference—(for still her resolution held of never marrying)—the honour, in short, of being marked out for her by all their joint acquaintance.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- Her resolution of refusal only grew more interesting by the addition of a scheme for his subsequent consolation and happiness.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- —However, my resolution is taken as to noticing Jane Fairfax.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- There is great fear, great caution, great resolution somewhere.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- She had no doubt as to his being less in love—but neither his agitated spirits, nor his hurrying away, seemed like a perfect cure; and she was rather inclined to think it implied a dread of her returning power, and a discreet resolution of not trusting himself with her long.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- He came to the part of the room where the sitters-by were collected, spoke to some, and walked about in front of them, as if to shew his liberty, and his resolution of maintaining it.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- Emma's first resolution was to keep her father from the knowledge of what had passed,—aware of the anxiety and alarm it would occasion: but she soon felt that concealment must be impossible.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- I knew it was—but had not resolution enough to part with them.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- —This is a new resolution.†
Chpt 3.3-4 *
- Your resolution, or rather your expectation of never marrying, results from an idea that the person whom you might prefer, would be too greatly your superior in situation to think of you.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- —Jane took Mrs. Elton aside, and told her at once, that upon thinking over the advantages of Mrs. Smallridge's situation, she had come to the resolution of accepting it.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- It was a private resolution of hers, not communicated to him—or at least not communicated in a way to carry conviction.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- Some portion of respect for herself, however, in spite of all these demerits—some concern for her own appearance, and a strong sense of justice by Harriet—(there would be no need of compassion to the girl who believed herself loved by Mr. Knightley—but justice required that she should not be made unhappy by any coldness now,) gave Emma the resolution to sit and endure farther with calmness, with even apparent kindness.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- …it came to such a pitch as this, she was not able to refrain from a start, or a heavy sigh, or even from walking about the room for a few seconds—and the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her…†
Chpt 3.11-12
- She might assist his resolution, or reconcile him to it; she might give just praise to Harriet, or, by representing to him his own independence, relieve him from that state of indecision, which must be more intolerable than any alternative to such a mind as his.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- She hardly knew yet what Mr. Knightley would ask; but a very short parley with her own heart produced the most solemn resolution of never quitting her father.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- Its effect upon her appears in the immediate resolution it produced: as soon as she found I was really gone from Randalls, she closed with the offer of that officious Mrs. Elton; the whole system of whose treatment of her, by the bye, has ever filled me with indignation and hatred.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- It was perfectly accordant with that resolution of character which I knew her to possess; and the secrecy she had maintained, as to any such design in her former letter, was equally descriptive of its anxious delicacy.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- Serious she was, very serious in her thankfulness, and in her resolutions; and yet there was no preventing a laugh, sometimes in the very midst of them.†
Chpt 3.17-18
- The strength, resolution, and presence of mind of the Mr. Knightleys, commanded his fullest dependence.†
Chpt 3.19
Definition:
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(resolution as in: a New Year's resolution) a firm decision to do something