 Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed,...  Books and Their Writers - 52 psl.autoriai: Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 343 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 psl.
...some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough rough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation...of wit and humour are conveyed, to the world in the best chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 psl.
...Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 psl.
...Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now3 had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1843 - 368 psl.
...or ' Belinda ;' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | 1917 - 920 psl.
...blue-stocking" I found a woman with an almost uncanny depth of insight into human character, one who realized that although life was far more important than literature,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. In other words. T found that new, hitherto... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1856 - 464 psl.
...Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - 578 psl.
...momentary shame. It is perhaps only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its vanities, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 psl.
...or ' Belinda/ or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.* Now had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of ' The Spectator ' instead of such a work,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1881 - 530 psl.
...mind are displayed, in which most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of it's varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world. " — LORD BYRON to MR. MURRAT. "Dec. 27, 1813. " Lord Holland is laid up with the gout, and would... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 450 psl.
...or Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how... | |
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