 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...counterplotting his wisest schemes, at the dictates of maternal vanity, forms an excellent counterpart.. Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose a fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is nowhere else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...counterplotting his wisest schemes, at the dictates of maternal vanity, forms an excellent counterpart* Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose a fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is nowhere else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...counterplotting his wisest schemes, at the dictates of maternal vanity, forms an excellent counterpart. Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose a fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is nowhere else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...counterplotting his wisest schemes, at the dictates of maternal vanity, forms an excellent counterpart. Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose a fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is nowhere else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 536 pages
...counter-plotting his wisest schemes, at the dictates of maternal vanity, forms an excellent counterpart. Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose a fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is no where else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...counterplotting his wisest schemes, at the dictates of maternal vanity, forms an excellent counterpart. Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose a fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is nowhere else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...days of De Foe to those of Smollett, prepared the age for a simple novel of English domestic life. Least of all for that picture, so purely and delicately...shaded, of the Vicar, in his character of pastor, of parent, and of husband ; of his helpmate, with her motherly cunning and housewifely prudence, '... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...counterplotting his wisest schtiius, at the die tales of maternal vanity, forms an excellent conn terpart. Both, with their children around them, their quiet labour and domestic happiness, compose 11 fireside picture of such a perfect kind, as perhaps is now here else equalled. It is sketched... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...days of De Foe to these of Smollett, prepared the age for a simple novel of English domestic life. Least of all for that picture, so purely and delicately...shaded, of the Vicar, in his character of pastor, of parent, and of husband; of his helpmate, with her motherly cunning and housewifely prudence, ' loving... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...days of De Foe to these of Smollett, prepared the age for a simple novel of English domestic life. Least of all for that picture, so purely and delicately...shaded, of the Vicar, in his character of pastor, of parent, and of husband ; of his helpmate, with her motherly cunning and housewifely prudence, '... | |
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... the Vicar, in his character of pastor, of parent, and of husband. 
