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" The comic part of the character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy, of which I know nothing ; or at least be occasionally abundant in... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 33
1870
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 107

1870 - 832 pages
...dared to be an authoress," and consequently quite incapable of " drawing such a clergyman ae you gave the sketch of. ... Such a man's conversation," she...giving." How Miss Austen must have chuckled secretly over this wonderful suggestion ! how deeply tempted she must have been to transfer the librarian himself,...
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The Living Age, Volume 105

1870 - 844 pages
...involved him in many interesting situations, concluding with his opinion of the benefits of tithes in quotations and allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own moibcr tongue, and hag read little in that, rould be totally without the power of givHow Miss Austen...
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A Memoir of Jane Austen

James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - 396 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient...
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Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America ..., Volume 1

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
..." I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient...
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A Memoir of Jane Austen: To Which are Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two ...

Jane Austen - 1882 - 396 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient...
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Letters of Jane Austen, Volume 2

Jane Austen - 1884 - 388 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy, of which I know nothing ; or at least be oceasionallj' abundant in quotations and allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own mother-tongue,...
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Jane Austen

Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - 240 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or, at any rate, a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient...
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The Story of Jane Austen's Life

Oscar Fay Adams - 1891 - 304 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own mother-tongue, and has read little in that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical...
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Lady Susan. The Watsons. With a memoir by J.E. Austen Leigh

Jane Austen - 1892 - 368 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...mother tongue, and has read little in that, would he totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance...
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Lady Susan; The Watsons: With a memoir by her Nephew, J. E. Austen Leigh

Jane Austen - 1899 - 372 pages
...character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy,...that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient...
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