Memoirs and Correspondence (official and Familiar) of Sir Robert Murray Keith, K.B., Envoy Extraordinary Ad Minister Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Dresden, Copenhagen, and Vienna, from 1769-1792: With a Memoir of Queen Carolina Matilda of Denmark, and an Account of the Revolution There in 1772, Том 1H. Colburn, 1849 |
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Страница 457 - We must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the most entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose.
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Страница 456 - The result is a history which, with the veracity of a cluonicle, affords equal entertainment with the most vivacious romance, and though sufficiently attractive in its own merits to all classes of readers, is essential to every library containing any portion of the Walpole Works and Correspondence. " We are glad to see an octavo edition of this work. The publisher has conferred a boon on the public by the republication.
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Страница 463 - Life of Johnson. It is a beautiful picture of society as it existed in manners, taste, and literature, in the early period of the reign of George the Third, drawn by a pencil as vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle.
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Страница 463 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person vi ho wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...