 ... To have repeatedly met and listened to Miss Edgeworth, seated familiarly with her by the fireside, may seem to her admirers in America a sufficient payment for the hazards of crossing the Atlantic. Her conversation, like her writings, is varied, vivacious,...  Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands - Page 282by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - Authors, English - 1882 - 640 pages
...Her conversation, like her writings, is varied, vivacious, and delightful. Her kind feelings towards our country are well known ; and her forgetfulness...own family to sit for my portrait, and, with my own good-will, shall never have it painted ; as I do not think it would give either my friends or the public... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - Women novelists, Irish - 1882 - 610 pages
...Her conversation, like her writings, is varied, vivacious, and delightful. Her kind feelings towards our country are well known ; and her forgetfulness...own family to sit for my/ portrait, and, with my own good-will, shall never have it painted ; as I do not think it would give either my friends or the public... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 332 pages
...been made acquainted with her personal appearance. ELIZA FARRAR : ' Recollections of Seventy Years.' Her person is small and delicately proportioned, and...own family to sit for my portrait, and with my own good-will, shall never have it painted ; as I do not think it would give either my friends or the public... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 330 pages
...been made acquainted with her personal appearance. ELIZA FARRAR : ' Recollections of Seventy Years.' Her person is small and delicately proportioned, and...which no entreaties of her friends have been able to overcomeIn one of her notes she says, " I have always refused even my own family to sit for my portrait,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1894 - 410 pages
...Pleasant Lands, by Mrs. LH Sigourney (1791-1865). her writings, is varied, vivacious, and delightful. Her forgetfulness of self and happiness in making...proportioned, and her movements full of animation. The ill-health of the lovely sister, much younger than herself, at whose house in London she was passing... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...of crossing the Atlantic. Her conversation, like her writings, is varied, vivacious, and delightful. Her forgetfulness of self and happiness in making...proportioned, and her movements full of animation. The ill-health of the lovely sister, much younger than herself, at whose house in London she was passing... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1843 - 422 pages
...persons occur here and there. She visited Miss Edgeworth, and thus describes her : "To have repeadly met and listened to Miss Edgeworth, seated familiarly...proportioned, and her movements full of animation. She lias an aversion to having her likeness taken, which no entreaties of her friends have been able to... | |
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