Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0208 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sheridan's "Grace": The Board's Own Item
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The idea
Sir Peter says his country-bred wife now plays her part in fashionable life "with as ready a Grace as if she had never seen a Bush nor a grass Plot out of Grosvenor-Square". Here grace means ease or facility, the readiness of someone long practised.
In practice
Grace here is practised ease.
Where people slip
The word is not religious in this line.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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