 Her knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no one is likely again to acquire, now that the multitude and the merits of our light literature have called off the attention of readers from that great master. Every circumstance narrated in Sir Charles...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 2291870Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1870 - 606 pages
...lady's education. She was well acquainted with the old periodicals, from tho " Spectator " downwards. Her knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no...Grandison," all that was ever said or done in the cedar parlour, was familiar to her; and the wedding-days of Lady L. and Lady G. were as well remembered as... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 596 pages
...lady's education. She was well acquainted with the old periodicals, from the "Spectator" downwards. Her knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no...Grandison," all that was ever said or done in the cedar parlour, was familiar to her; and the wedding-days of Lady L. and Lady G. were as well remembered as... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 604 pages
...lady's education. She was well acquainted with the old periodicals, from the " Spectator " downwards. Her knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no...Grandison," all that was ever said or done in the cedar parlour, was familiar to her; and the wedding-days of Lady L. and Lady G. were as well remembered as... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 396 pages
...prevailed in her family. She was well acquainted with the old periodicals from the 'Spectator' downwards. Her knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no...have called off the attention of readers from that gredt master. Every circumstance narrated in Sir Charles Grandison, all that was ever said or done... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 330 pages
...Memoir,' by Austen-Leigh. She was well acquainted with the old periodicals, from the ' Spectator ' downward. Her knowledge of Richardson's works was...master. Every circumstance narrated in Sir Charles Tastein Grandison, all that ever was said or reading, done in the cedar parlor, was familiar to her... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 332 pages
...dared to be an authoress. JANE AUSTEN : Letter to Mr. JS Clarke, quoted in ' Memoir,' by Austen-Leigh. of our light literature have called off the attention...master. Every circumstance narrated in Sir Charles Tastein Grandison, all that ever was said or reading, done in the cedar parlor, was familiar to her... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 702 pages
...prevailed in her family. She was well acquainted with the old periodicals from the "Spectator" downwards. Her knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no one is likely again to ao quire, now that the multitude and the merits of ourilight literature have called off the attention... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1902 - 808 pages
...[Jane Austen's] knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no one is likely again to acquire. . . . Every circumstance narrated in "Sir Charles Grandison, " all that was ever said or done in the cedar parlour, was familiar to her ; and the wedding days of Lady L. and Lady G. were as well remembered... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 232 pages
...of Richardson's works " — wrote her nephew and biographer, the Rev. SE Austen-Leigh, in 1870 — "was such as no one is likely again to acquire, now...the attention of readers from that great master." But, although Miss Austen too chose the "epistolary style" for the first form of Sense and Sensibility,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...EDWARD BULWER LORD, 1863-68, Caxtoniana, Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. in, p. 453. Her [Jane Austen's] knowledge of Richardson's works was such as no one is likely again to acquire. . . . Every circum• stance narrated in "Sir Charles Grandison, " all that was ever said or done in... | |
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