| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 páginas
...of that time in order. Tke materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. I should be very much obliged to you to fell me what are the best sources of information about the... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 páginas
...of that time in order. The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of yonng ladies. I should be very much obliged to you to tell me what are the best sources of information... | |
| Macvey Napier - 1879 - 586 páginas
...of that time in order. The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. I should be very much obliged to you to tell me what are the best sources of information about the... | |
| Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 páginas
...through a terra incognita, and he was not to be satisfied unless he produced something which should for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. He was not to found his pretensions to the rank of a classic on his reviews, but if he lived twelve... | |
| Morison - 1882 - 212 páginas
...my historical labours The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies." We did not need this intimation to make us acquainted with the chief object which the writer had in... | |
| 1885 - 286 páginas
...the execution of his plan. In speaking of this contemplated work he said : " I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies." His expectations were more than realized. It has been pretty well established that the " History" has... | |
| 1889 - 610 páginas
...And again he writes : ' The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.' Such an aim in an historian is about on a par with that which he applauds in a philosopher, ' to make... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1893 - 416 páginas
...publication, Lord Macaulay said he should not be satisfied unless he produced something which should for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. And this he actually did. His biographer tells us that '' at Dukinfield, near Manchester, a gentleman... | |
| James Cotter Morison - 1902 - 216 páginas
...my historical labours The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies." We did not need this intimation to make us acquainted with the chief object which the writer had in... | |
| R. McWilliam - 1897 - 176 páginas
...But he was meditating his own ' History of England,' and hoped ' to produce something which should for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.' His hopes were more than realised, and the instant popularity of the first two volumes delighted himself... | |
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