 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting from...the description and the sentiment, is -denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!" The novel thus admired by Scott was begun in 1796,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...the most wonderful I havo ever mot with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but tho exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things...interesting from the truth of the description and the sentimeut, in denied to me. What a pity so gifted a creature died so early Í " Lady Blessington. MABGARET,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 650 pages
...wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wnw I can do myself like any one going; hut the exquisito touch, which renders commonplace things and characters...interesting from the truth of the description and the sentimcnt, is denied to me. What a pity so gifted u creature died no early ! " Lady Blessington. MARGARET,... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going, but the exquisite touch which renders common-place things...truth of the description and the sentiment is denied me." And there was the bright romance and poetry of " the big bow-wow" in Scott himself, the shrewd... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from...the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !" " March 15th. — This morning I leave No. 39 Castle... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...bowwow 1 can do myself like anyone going ; but the exriuimtti touch which rendent comnionplacu thmg-t in good order. A pcontinued speech, without What a pity so gifted a creature died so early !" Archbiehop Whately, in the Qu>n-ttrlii Heritor, wrote... | |
 | Mrs. Compton Reade - 1874 - 370 pages
...Miss Austen has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with....sentiment, is denied to me." — Sir Walter Scott. MASTER OF GREYLANDS. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Author of " East Lynne," " The Channings," &c. "A book by... | |
 | Thomas Wilkinson Speight - 1874 - 304 pages
..."Miss Austen has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and character" of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with....of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me."-—S/r Waltrr Scott. MASTER OF GREYLANDS. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of '' East Lynne," " The... | |
 | Marie Sofie Schwartz - 1874 - 316 pages
..."Miss Austen has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with....of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me."—Sir Walter Scott. MASTER OF GREYLANDS. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of "East Lynne," "The Channings,... | |
 | 1874 - 302 pages
...ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. Her exquisite touch, which rentiers commonplace things and characters interesting from...sentiment, is denied to me." — Sir Walter Scott. MASTER OF GREYLANDS. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of " East Lynne," "The Channings, &c. "A book by... | |
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That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders... 
