 | Amalfi - 1852 - 170 pages
...what one feels to have been sincerely observed ; and the effect is genuine and perfectly satisfactory. The descriptions are excellent ; some of the country...or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson." — Examiner. " The materials of this story are thoroughly new, and the contrasts of manners and character they afford... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 374 pages
...what one feels to have been sincerely observed ; and the effect is genuine and perfectly satisfactory. The descriptions are excellent ; some of the country...Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson." — Examiner. " A hale, hearty, unaffected, honest, downright English tale — such a one as is very rarely met with... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...what one feels to have been sincerely observed ; and the effect is genuine and perfectly satisfactory. The descriptions are excellent ; some of the country...Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson." — Examiner. " A hale, hearty, unaffected, honest, downright English tale — such a one as is very rarely met with... | |
 | Royalist - 1852 - 278 pages
...what one feels to have been sincerely observed ; and the effect is genuine and perfectly satisfactory. The descriptions are excellent; some of the country...as a landscape by Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson.''—Examiner. " A hale, hearty, unaffected, honest, downright English tale—such a one as... | |
 | William Swainson - Auckland (N.Z.) - 1853 - 204 pages
...English literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely-managed, wellturned narrative. The descriptions are excellent;...for Fathers' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting — full of that genuine humour which is half pathos — and written with a freshness of... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - Food - 1853 - 458 pages
...English literature, by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicelymanaged, well-turned narrative. The descriptions are excellent;...for Fathers ' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting — full of that genuine humour which is half pathos — and written with a freshness of... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Juvenile delinquency - 1853 - 474 pages
...literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely-managed, well; turned narrative. The descriptions are excellent; some of...for Fathers' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting — full of that genuine humour which is half pathos — and written with a freshness of... | |
 | Joseph-Marie Callery, Melchior Yvan - China - 1853 - 372 pages
...what one feels to have been sincerely observed ; and the effect is genuine and perfectly satisfactory. The descriptions are excellent; some of the country...for Fathers' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting — fiill of that genuine humour which is half pathos — and written with a freshness... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Juvenile delinquency - 1853 - 474 pages
...unaffected manner of writing, and nicely-managed, well? turned narrative. The descriptions are excellent j some of the country painting is as fresh as a landscape...for Fathers' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting — full of that genuine humour which is half pathos — and written with a freshness of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...what one feels to have been sincerely observed ; and the effect is genuine and perfectly satisfactory. The descriptions are excellent; some of the country...Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson." — Examiner. " A hale, hearty, unaffected, honest, downright English tale — such a one as is very rarely met with... | |
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Taller and Spectator days, and is very fitly associated with that time of good English literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely managed, wellturned narrative. The descriptions are excellent ; some of the country... 
