Middlemarch vocabulary

And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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"Have you anything else to propose for my domestic felicity?"

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)