 Southey still in petticoats. • Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature and...  Revelations of Russia in 1846 - Page 6by Charles Frederick Henningsen - 1846Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 706 pages
...her fame, before she went hence, that seal which is seldom set except on the fame of the departed. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner...the history of our literature and our manners."— Edinburgh Review. MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. By HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of Orford.... | |
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...delight that this Diary was kept before Madame D'Arblay became eloquent. It is, for the most part, written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. The two works are lying side by side before us, and we never turn from the Memoirs to the Diary without... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - Biography - 1843 - 420 pages
...and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a school-boy, and Scmthey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest...woman's English, clear, natural and lively. It ought to he consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with t!ie history of our literature and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...delight, that this Diary was kept before Madame D'Arblay became eloquent. It is, for the most part, written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. The two works are lying side by side before us, and we never turn from the Memoirs to the Diary without... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...delight that this Diary was kept before Madame D'Arblay became eloquent. It is, for the most part, written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. The two works are lying side by side before us, and we never turn from the Memoirs to the Diary without... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...fetid with lavender water and jasmine soap, and the air of a heath on a fine morning in May. Both works ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to...with the history of our literature and our manners. But to read the Diary is a pleasure; to read the Memoirs will always be a task. We may, perhaps, afford... | |
 | Henry Colburn - 1845 - 440 pages
...••!! had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Ropers* w;vs still a schoolboy, and Sou they still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest...The account which she gives of the king's illness, tvill, we think. be more valued by the historians of a future ago than any equal portions of Pepys'... | |
 | Ida Maria L.S.F.G. Hahn-Hahn (gräfin von.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Sou they still in petticoats. Her Diary U written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's...and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person wbo wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature and our manners. The account which... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - Spain - 1845 - 424 pages
...and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest...manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lire!)'. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history... | |
 | Lady Hester Stanhope - British - 1845 - 460 pages
...and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Sou they still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, WOMAN AND HER MASTER; OR, THE HISTORY OF THE FEMALE SEX FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY.... | |
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