 I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity that such a gifted creature died so early!  English Journal - Page 2081913Full view - About this book
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...characters of ordinary life, which is, to me, the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite...description and the sentiment is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." N ... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 440 pages
...characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch% which renders ordinary comnmonplace things and character. interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which fenders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting-, from the truth of the description... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-itow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite...interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died to early." 20.—Glimpses of Home... | |
 | 1848 - 706 pages
...characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The hig bow-irow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite...interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature diedio early." 20.—Glimpses of Home... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 528 pages
...met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from...description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity so gifted a creature died so early !" Miss Austen's novels are, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey,... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1850 - 232 pages
...characters of ordinary life, wliich is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite...ordinary, common-place things and characters interesting, Irom the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied me. What a pity such a gifted creature died... | |
 | 1855 - 796 pages
...me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big boif-wow strain I can do myself like any nowgoing ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary, common-place...description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early 1" Miss Austen died in 1817, aged furty-two. 13.—The Kick Kinsman.... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 562 pages
...met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from...description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity so gifted a creature died so early !“ Miss Austen's novels are, Sense and Sensibility, Nortimanger... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1857 - 528 pages
...met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from...description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity so gifted a creature died so early !" Miss Austen's novels are, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey,... | |
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