 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 418 pages
...ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters...pity such a gifted creature died so early ! "March 15.—This morning I leave No. 39, Castle Street, for the last time. ' The cabin was convenient,' and... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary common-place things and characters...What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." ... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...involvements, and feelings, ' and characters of ordinary life;' — 'the exquisite touch which ren' tiers commonplace things and characters interesting from the ' truth of the description and the sentiment. '§ In this talent the female novel writers of Great Britain surpass those of France. In bold and startling... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters...' The cabin was convenient,' and habit had made it agreeable to me. I never reckoned upon a change in this particular so long as I held an office in the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 430 pages
...ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters...' The cabin was convenient,' and habit had made it agreeable to me. I never reckoned upon a change in this particular so long as I held an office in the... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...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...is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature should have died so young !" And even at Malta, when, in December 1831, Sir Walter Scott was, as it... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...the Aberdeen Advocates1 would have possessed themselves of all the business in Westminster Hall.' " "March 15. — This morning I leave No. 39 Castle...' The cabin was convenient,' and habit had made it ngreeable to me. I never reckoned upon 1 The Solicitors of Aberdeen enjoy somehow the title of Advocates.... | |
 | Commerce - 1848 - 706 pages
...ever met with. The big bow-irow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters...interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20. — Glimpses of... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1848 - 726 pages
...ever met with. The big 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 truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20. — Glimpucs of... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...ever met with. The b:_: l>oic-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters...interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died 50 early." 20. — Glimptes of... | |
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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... 
