 ... contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding — joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine,...  The Dublin Review - Page 429edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas...cannot approve of it. Let us leave it to the Reviewers viewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas ! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1843 - 368 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas ! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard ? I cannot approve... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - 1862 - 352 pages
...sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it "It is only a novel" found no favour with Miss Austen; she justly and indignantly exclaimed, "It is... | |
 | Iwe - 1863 - 406 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally takes up a novel, is sure to tarn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas ! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas ! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom 'can she expect protection and regard ? I cannot approve... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 450 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust Alas ! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1888 - 412 pages
...basis, she took an early opportunity to speak her mind freely upon the subject. up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronized 0J' the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it.... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 280 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas ! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard ? I cannot approve... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 296 pages
...permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard ? I cannot approve... | |
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