Themes -- Sensibility
Sensibility: essentially, the emotional life, but, in a broader sense,
involving elements of gender, psychological balance, social acceptance.
- 1.1.3 and note ("So expressive of
sensibility and sweetness") [1831 only]
- 1.1.4 and note ("Creations of the
poets")
- 1.5.9 and note ("Your gentleness and
affection")
- 2.1.3 and note ("I know, I feel")
- 2.2.2 and note ("Why does man boast of
sensibilities superior")
- 2.4.2 and note ("Such lovely
creatures")
- 2.4.6 and note ("My imagination")
- 2.5.3 and note ("They at once drew
tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes")
- 2.5.4 and note ("Stars of pale
radiance among the moonlight woods")
- 2.5.4 and note ("I improved more
rapidly")
- 2.6.2 and note ("Felix was too
delicate to accept this offer")
- 2.7.1 and note ("Sorrows of Werter")
- 2.7.3 and note ("I learned ...
thoughts")
- 2.8.5 and note ("Unfeeling, heartless
creator!")
- 2.8.6 and note ("Soft tears")
- 2.9.2 and note ("The human senses are
insurmountable barriers")
- 2.9.3 and note ("A creature of fine
sensations")
- 2.9.4 and note ("The affections of a
sensitive being")
- 3.1.7 and note ("Sensibility")
- 3.3.9 and note ("Tears gushed from my eyes")
- Walton 16 and note ("Light, feeling, and
sense, will pass away")
