 Emma, when we say that, keeping close to common incidents and to such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of uncommon...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 191852Full view - About this book
 | John M'Leod - China - 1818 - 272 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...manners, and' sentiments, greatly above our own.*' Quarterly Review. DISCIPLINE. By the author of " Self Controul." In 2 vols. 12mo. 2d, American edition.... | |
 | Lea & Febiger - 1821 - 312 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketehes of sueh spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments, greatly above our own ." Quarterly YfowYv. 1652 Emma Corbett, sixth edition, 2 vols. 82 JVewSuryfiort 1653 English Hermit;... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1833 - 448 pages
...snch characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments greatly above our own. In this class Miss Austen stands almost alone."—Critique by Sir Walter Scott, in the Quarterly Review.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that / we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of I uncommon events, arising from the consideration of minds, man- ( ners, and sentiments, greatly above... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 428 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments, greatly above our own. In this class she stands almost alone ; for the scenes of Miss Edgeworth. are laid in higher life,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments, greatly above our own. In this class she stands almost alone ; for the scenes of Miss Edgeworth are laid in higher life, varied... | |
 | Leicester Buckingham - 1844 - 440 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments greatly above our own. In this class Miss Austen stands almost alone."— Critupw by Sir Walter Scott, in tlie Quarterly Review.... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments greatly above our own. In this class Mias Austen stands almost alone." — Critique by Sir Walter Scott, in the Quarterly... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Serialized fiction - 1844 - 352 pages
...such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which...minds, manners, and sentiments greatly above our own. In this class Miss Austen stands almost alone." Critique by Sir Walter Scott, in the Quarterly Review.... | |
 | 1852 - 516 pages
...crude and ill-assorted heaps — the indiscriminate riches of a crowded portfolio, into which genius has recklessly tossed its manifold essays, all clever,...we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narratrre of uncommon events, arising from the consideration of minds, manners, and sentiments greatly... | |
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