 Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some future work the habits of life, and character, and enthusiasm of a clergyman, who should pass his time between the metropolis and the country, who should be something like Beattie's Minstrel...  Littell's Living Age - Page 331870Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 812 pages
...no doubt, like Narcissus, with his own dear image, offered a tentative suggestion that she should " delineate in some future work the habits of life and...his time between the metropolis and the country." He was to be " fond of and engaged entirely in literature, no man's enemy but his own," and he was... | |
 | 1909 - 838 pages
...no doubt, like Narcissus, with his own dear image, offered a tentative suggestion that she should " delineate in some future work the habits of life and...his time between the metropolis and the country." He was to be " fond of and engaged entirely in literature, no man's enemy but his own," and he was... | |
 | Lucy Bethia Walford - 1910 - 362 pages
...the Librarian to King George IV., that she should " delineate in some future work the habits of life, character, and enthusiasm of a clergyman who should...country, who should be something like Beattie's Minstrel, fond of and entirely engaged in literature." • •••••• Nor was this attempt to turn the... | |
 | 1897 - 606 pages
...correspondence between Jane Austen and the courteous librarian." The librarian even went so far as to ask her "to delineate in some future work the habits of life,...his time between the metropolis and the country, who would be something like Beattie's Minstrel : • Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his... | |
 | William Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh - 1913 - 658 pages
...me : in the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel : — Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And now his look was most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why. Neither... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1914 - 344 pages
...what field of art they could find full play. To a man high in station who suggested that she portray "the habits of life, and character, and enthusiasm...his time between the metropolis and the country," she replied, "I am quite honoured by your thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as .' you... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1915 - 456 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel — Silent when glad, affectionate tho* shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad; And now be laughed aloud, yet none knew why. [374]... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1890 - 204 pages
...inspiration or out of his own wisdom, suggested as a subject for a future tale " the habits of life, the character and enthusiasm, of a clergyman who should...pass his time between the metropolis and the country. n Jane demurely replied that she might be equal to the comic part of the character, but not to the... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - 1982 - 408 pages
...in Austen's correspondence with JS Clarke, domestic chaplain to the Prince Regent. He had asked her "to delineate in some future Work the Habits of Life and Character and enthusiasm of a Clergyman," and she answered: "I am quite honoured by your thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as you... | |
 | George Holbert Tucker - 1995 - 296 pages
...given me: m the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write 8: say so. And I also dear Madam wished to be allowed to ask you, to delineate in some...— who should pass his time between the metropolis & the Country — who should be somethmg like Beatties Mmstrel SUtnt when glad, affectieaate tho' shy... | |
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