Scylla Or Charybdis?R. Bentley, 1895 - 373 pages |
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Page 3 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and 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 commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 3 - But among the writers who, in the point which we have noticed, have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen, a woman of whom England is justly proud. She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, common-place, all such as we meet every day. Yet they are all as perfectly discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric of human beings.
Page 235 - Then came out the dusty mouse : " I am Lady of this house : ' Hast thou any mind of me?" "I have e'en great mind of thee?" "Who shall this marriage make?
Page 3 - I am a great novel reader, but I seldom read German or French novels. The characters are too artificial. My delight is to read English novels, particularly those written by women. " C'est toute une. ecole de morale." Miss Austen, Miss Ferrier, &c., form a school which in the excellence and profusion of its productions resembles the cloud of dramatic poets of the great Athenian age.
Page 9 - I love the romances of Miss Broughton ; I think them much truer to Nature than Ouida's, and more impassioned and less preachy than George Eliot's. Miss Broughton's heroines are living beings, having not only flesh and blood, but also esprit and soul; in a. word, they are real women, neither animals nor angels, but allied to both.
Page 8 - The story is extremely interesting from the first page to the last. It is a long time since we have met with anything so exquisitely touching as the description of Eugen's life with his friend Helfen. It is an idyl of the purest and noblest simplicity.
Page 5 - Austen should once have been living some weeks in his neighbourhood without his knowing it. ' I have heard Sydney Smith, more than once, dwell with eloquence on the merits of Miss Austen's novels. He told me he should have enjoyed giving her the pleasure of reading her praises in the "Edinburgh Review.
Page 4 - and another book of Pliny's " Letters." Read " Northanger Abbey," worth all Dickens and Pliny together. Yet it was the work of a girl. She was certainly not more than 26. Wonderful creature 1* — MACAULAY'S JOURNAL, Aug.
Page 5 - ABBEY. By JANE AUSTEN, Authoress of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. OSWALD CRAY. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of " East Lynne," &c. With an Illustration. OUGHT WE TO VISIT HER? By Mrs. ANNIE EDWARDES, Authoress of '* Archie Lovell," &c. With an Illustration on Steel. - "To this novel the epithets spirited, lively, original of design, and vigorous in working it out, may be applied without let or hindrance In short, in all that goes to make up at once an amusing and interesting story, it is in every way...
Page 2 - Her circle may be restricted, but it is complete. Her world is a perfect orb, and vital. Life, as it presents itself to an English gentlewoman peacefully yet actively engaged in her quiet village, is mirrored in her works with a purity and fidelity that must endow them with interest for all time.