 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...  Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Page 7811855Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...to me the most wonderful thing I ever met with. TV big bow-wow strain I can myself do, like any ow now going, but the exquisite touch •which renders...interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment is denied me." Jane Austen was born in Steventon parsonage on the 16th of December, 1775.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Scott, Walter - 1878 - 202 pages
...the domestic novel. He said himself, in expressing his admiration of Miss Austen, " The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going, but the...the description and the sentiment, is denied to me." Indeed he tried it to some extent in St. Honan's Well, and so far as he tried it, I think he failed.... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1878 - 604 pages
...met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going ; but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting, from...the description and the sentiment, is denied to me." How much stronger he would have made this admission, had he lived to read " David Copperfield " or... | |
 | 1889 - 234 pages
...ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. Her exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from...description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity so gifted a Creature died so early !" Macaulay, it is true, was no critic, but he was not far wrong... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big tow wma strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch that renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...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...me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early ! " Macaulay has this entry in his journal : — " I have now read once again all Miss Austen's novels... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...the domestic novel. He said himself, in expressing his admiration of Miss Austen, " The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going, but the...truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied me." Indeed he tried it to some extent in St. Ronan's Well, and so far as he tried it, I think he failed.... | |
 | James Crabb Watt - English fiction - 1880 - 320 pages
...or analytic power, and never concealed his inaptitude for the domestic picture : " The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the...truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied me." The religious novel, too, he would probably have scouted, for his views on sacred themes were... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...ever met with." He adds with amusing frankness : — " The big bow-wow strain I can 1 FT Palgrave. do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite...the description and the sentiment is denied to me." Miss Austin's principal novels are " Sense and Sensibility," " Pride and Prejudice," " Persuasion,"... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...the domestic novel. He said himself, in expressing his admiration of Miss Austen : " The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going, but the...interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiments, is denied to me." Indeed, he tried it to some extent in St. JRonan's Well, and, so far... | |
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