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 | 1870 - 606 páginas
...cannot speak as they ought. Upon the whole, however, I am quite vain enough and well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling...could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story ; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the... | |
 | 1870 - 596 páginas
...cannot speak as they ought. Upon the whole, however, I am quite vain enough and well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling...could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the... | |
 | 1870 - 604 páginas
...cannot speak as they ought. Upon the whole, however, I am quite vain enough and well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling ; it wants shade ; it wants to bo stretched out hero and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had ; if not, of solemn... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - 396 páginas
...cannot speak as they ought. Upon the whole, however, I am quite vain enough and well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling...could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story ; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1871 - 790 páginas
...quite vain enough and well-satisfied enough." This is her own criticism of Pride and Prejudice: — "The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling. It wants shade. It wants to be stretched out hero and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense... | |
 | Anne Thackeray Ritchie, lady Anne Isabella Ritchie - 1874 - 320 páginas
...quite vain enough and well-satisfied enough.' This is her own criticism of ' Pride and Prejudice :'—' The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling....could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense about something unconnected with the story—an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott or the... | |
 | Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1874 - 368 páginas
...vain enough and well-satisfied enough.' This is her own criticism of ' Pride and Prejudice : ' — ' The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling....could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense about something unconnected with the story — an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott or the... | |
 | Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1876 - 412 páginas
...vain enough and well-satisfied enough.' This is her own criticism of ' Pride and Prejud1ce ' : — ' The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling....could be had ; if not, of solemn specious nonsense about something unconnected with the story — an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott or the... | |
 | Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1877 - 316 páginas
...vain enough and well-satisfied enough." This is her own criticism of "Pride and Prejudice":—"The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling....could be had; if not, of solemn Specious nonsense about something unconnected with the story—an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott or the... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 páginas
...with her story was that it was rather too light, and bright, and sparkling ; it wanted to be stretched here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had, if not of solemn specious nonsense. Unquestionably the novelist was not plagued with diffidence, any more than with mock-modesty. In the... | |
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