 | Jane Austen - England - 1818 - 338 pages
...while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.-1-*" It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ;" or, in short, only some...the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough rough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ". It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 pages
...while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentdry shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now3 had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...novelist exercised the function of displaying the greatest powers of the mind, and that novels are works in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. In other words. T found that new, hitherto... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - Authors, English - 1863 - 370 pages
...justly and indignantly exclaimed, " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla' or Belinda," or, in short/only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language." Of her own novels she said to a friend that they were like little bits of ivory... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - 578 pages
...young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is perhaps only some work in which the greatest powers of the...knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its vanities, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...; while she lays down her book with affected indifference or momentary shame. It is only ' Cecilia/ or ' Camilla/ or ' Belinda/ or, in short, only some...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.* Now had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of ' The Spectator '... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1881 - 530 pages
...! " [What was written by the betteis of Mrs. S. and Lady L.] JANE AUSTEN : " It is only ' Cecilia,' or Camilla,' or ' Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some...greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of it's varieties, the liveliest... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 450 pages
...while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 632 pages
...while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some...which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, tne happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed... | |
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Oh! It is only a novel!" replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,... 
