 | English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, whe.u Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in...were, after a long and splendid career, borne with honour to the grave. Yet so it was. Frances Burney was at the height of fame and popularity before... | |
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...children when compared with her; for Buike had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson bad pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was...still in petticoats. Yet more strange did it seem th;it we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before any body had heard... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 766 pages
...intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her ; for Burko had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southcy still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...were, after a long and splendid career, borne with honour to the grave. Yet so it was. Frances Burney was at the height of fame and popularity before... | |
 | 1843 - 1266 pages
...intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...were, after a long and splendid career, borne with honour to the grave. Yet so it was. Frances Burney was at the height of fame and popularity before... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...were, after a long and splendid career, borne with honour to the grave. Yet so it was. Frances Burney was at the height of fame and popularity before... | |
 | George William Johnson - India - 1843 - 324 pages
...intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and... | |
 | John Mills - 1843 - 294 pages
...intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural and lively.... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - Biography - 1843 - 420 pages
...intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...Fielding, when Rogers was still a school-boy, and Scmthey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior...lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before anybody had heard of some illustrious men who, twenty, thirty, or forty years ago, were, after a long... | |
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All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as Intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy,... 
