—and now, my dear fanny, having written so much on one side of the question, i shall turn round & entreat you not to commit yourself farther, & not to think of accepting him unless you really do like him. anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection which statement best paraphrases jane austen’s advice in these lines from “on making an agreeable marriage”? marrying someone you don’t really like will make you more committed to marriage. it’s better to commit to marriage with a man you can endure than with one you really like. don’t keep seeing him if you don’t like him, because nothing would be worse than a loveless marriage. it’s better to marry him than to endure dating him without really liking him. description

d) sarah's natural reaction to being accepted into college suggests that she has no other dreams.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.