 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1891 - 898 lehte
...conflict of our "fierce intellectual life," is insensible to " the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment," loses the unique opportunity for tranquil enjoyment afforded by the high comedy of manners of the provincial... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 lehte
...bow-wow 1 can do myself like any one going . but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace thing» and characters interesting from the truth of the description, and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pityso gifted a creature died so early!" Archbishop Whately, in the Quai-tei-ly Afrinr, wrote:... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - 242 lehte
...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." There are various comments of Jane Austen at this... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1889 - 258 lehte
...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 commonplace...things and characters interesting from the truth of the descriptive and the sentiment is denied to me." Lord Macaulay, the great historian, wrote in his diary:... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - 240 lehte
...strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common, place things and characters interesting from the truth of...the description, and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." There are various comments of Jane Austen at this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1890 - 450 lehte
...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 : l March 15. — This morning I leave Xo. 39 Castle... | |
 | Halkett Lord - 1890 - 302 lehte
...bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any one now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from...the description and the sentiment, is denied to me." That just hits the mark where it makes Scott disparage his own ''big bow-wow strain," — in other... | |
 | Reeta Sahney - 1990 - 224 lehte
...commonplace with interest. (Mary Corringham, f. June Austen) The exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment"1 denied to Scott, brought unstinted praise from him to Jane Austen. His regret was "What... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 lehte
...wow strain I can do myself like any other 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.'2 From one author — and novelist — to another... | |
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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... 
