A Study of Maria Edgeworth: With Notices of Her Father and FriendsA. Williams and Company, 1882 - 567 頁 Get to the heart of Maria Edgeworth's life from the people who knew her best. This biography includes accounts from Edgeworth's father and friends.? |
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第 93 頁 - She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
第 277 頁 - Deans-looking body,' as we Scotch say — and, if not handsome, certainly not ill-looking. Her conversation was as quiet as herself. One would never have guessed she could write her name ; whereas her father talked, not as if he could write nothing else, but as if nothing else was worth writing.
第 393 頁 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
第 213 頁 - 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 ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
第 429 頁 - The first was the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland...
第 290 頁 - It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings ; so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth...
第 394 頁 - Edgeworth's stone. A third day we had to go further a-field. He must needs show her, not Newark only, but all the upper scenery of the Yarrow, where " fair hangs the apple frae the rock...
第 414 頁 - O'Kelly; and he had produced on the spur of the occasion this modest parody of Dryden's famous epigram : — ' Three poets of three different nations born, The United Kingdom in this age adorn ; Byron of England, Scott of Scotia's blood, And Erin's pride — O'Kelly, great and good.
第 36 頁 - Mr. Watt, Dr. Darwin, Mr. Wedgwood, Mr. Day, and myself together — men of very different characters, but all devoted to literature and science. This mutual intimacy has never been broken but by death, nor have any of the number failed to distinguish themselves in science or literature.
第 429 頁 - Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for...