 | English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...Steevens and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish-register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit...tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged her merit, after... | |
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's Lite of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have...tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged her merit, after... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...Steevens and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish-register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit...tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged her merit, after... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...Steevens and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parishregister of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit...admiration, tempered by the tenderness due to her sex and ace. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's Ljfe of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have...admiration, tempered by the tenderness due to her sex and aje. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged... | |
 | 1843 - 1266 pages
...whose spile she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition ol'Boswell's Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers...parcels of better books. But we must return to our slory. The triumph was complete. The timid and obscure girl found herself on the highest pinnacle of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of BoswelPs Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers...triumph was complete. The timid and obscure girl found hersejf on the highest pinnacle of fame. Great men, on whom she had gazed at a distance with humble... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...whose spite she had invoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of Bos well 's Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have doubtless seen round parcels of belter books." The incidental references to Johnson and Burke, the sketch of Mr. Crash, the grouping... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 332 pages
...sisters, aunts and cousins: and they were far too proud and too happy to be discreet. Dr. Burneywept over the book in rapture. Daddy Crisp shook his fist...tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged her merit, after... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 596 pages
...and cousins : and they were far too proud and too happy to be discreet. Dr. Burney wept over the X 2 book in rapture. Daddy Crisp shook his fist at his...tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Cumberland acknowledged her merit, after... | |
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Probably she was too much a •woman to contradict it ; and it was long before any of her detractors thought of this mode of annoyance. Yet there •was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation •which witnessed her first appearance. There... 
