 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 460 páginas
...which could hardly fail, as he thought, to render his delineations cold and tame by the contrast. ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...could say, — ' Positively, this is equal to Miss Edge worth.' You will thus judge, Madam, how deeply he must feel such praise as you have bestowed upon... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 314 páginas
...which could hardly fail, as he thought, to render his delineations cold and tame by the contrast. ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...gratified him most when I could say, ' Positively, thi= is equal to Miss Edgeworth.' You will thus judge, Madam, how dtoply ne must feel such praise as... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 610 páginas
...could hardly rail, u he thought, to render his delineations cold and tame by the contrast. ' If I cook! but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of vivifying...gratified him most when I could say, — ' Positively this u equal to Miss Edgeworth.' You will thus judpe. Madam, how deeply he must feel such praise as you... | |
 | 1851 - 782 páginas
...not read Maria Edgeworth's exquisite pieces of Irish character. Ho used to say to Ballantine,* ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of vivifying all her persons, and making them live a> beings in your mind, I should not be afraid.'" The high place in literature Miss Edgeworth gained... | |
 | 1857 - 626 páginas
...not read Maria Edgeworth's exquisite pieces of Irish character. He used to say to Ballantine,* ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...making them live as beings in your mind, I should not bo afraid.'" The high place in literature Miss Edgeworth gained thus early at the commencement of the... | |
 | 1851 - 424 páginas
...not read Maria Edgeworth's exquisite pieces of Irish character. He used to say to Ballantine,* ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...as beings in your mind, I should not be afraid.'" The high place in literature Miss Edgeworth gained thus early at the commencement of the century, she... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 338 páginas
...which could hardly fail, as he thought, to render his delineations cold and tame by the contrast. ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...I knew that I gratified him most when I could say, — 4 Positively this is equal to Miss Edgeworth.' You will thus judge, Madam, how deeply he must feel... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1861 - 436 páginas
...not read Maria Edgeworth's exquisite pieces of Irish character. He used to say to Ballantine,*. ' If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...as beings in your mind, I should not be afraid.'" The high place in literature Miss Edgeworth gained thus early at the commencement of the century, she... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - 1862 - 352 páginas
...which could hardly fail, as he thought, to render his delineations cold and tame by the contrast. 'If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of...persons, and making them live as beings in your mind,! should not be afraid ! ' Often has the author of ' Waverley 'used such language to me ; and I know... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 páginas
...truth and power of your characters operated on his mind at once to excite and subdue it. .... " If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of..."Waverley" used such language to me, and I knew that I could gratify him most when I could say, " Positively this is equal to M1ss Edgeworth." — Bames Ballantyne.... | |
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If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of vivifying all her persons, and making them live as beings in your mind, I should not be afraid... 
