 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1878 - 202 頁
...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 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.... | |
 | 1889 - 234 頁
...owing to the possession of faculties with which George Eliot was also gifted in a high degree — " the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things...characters interesting from the truth of the description." Unfortunately George Eliot was not contented with this result. She took up the study of spiritual development... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 頁
...tow wma strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch that renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied me. What u pity such a gifted creatnre died so early.' A very concise and interesting biography of... | |
 | 1880 - 892 頁
...characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bowwow 1 can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite...description and the sentiment, is denied to me." Miss A. 's first four novels— Sen»e and Sentäiäily, Pride and Prejudice, Minefield Park, and Entina... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 頁
...I can 1 FT Palgrave. do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from...description and the sentiment is denied to me." Miss Austin's principal novels are " Sense and Sensibility," " Pride and Prejudice," " Persuasion," "Mansfield... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 頁
...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 description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early ! " Macaulay has this entry in his journal : — "... | |
 | James Crabb Watt - 1880 - 320 頁
...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...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... | |
 | 1880 - 556 頁
...bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...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.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 頁
...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 sentiments, is denied to me." Indeed, he tried it to some extent in St. JRonan's Well, and, so far... | |
 | 1881 - 790 頁
...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 description and the sentiment is denied to me.' There is a close resemblance between George Eliot and Jane Austen in a particular to which I have already... | |
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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 renders... 
