 | 1917 - 920 pages
...her self-imposed task. Everyone remembers her phrase about "the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor." Her pellucid vision gave her two eminent characteristics which at first sight would seem to... | |
 | 1870 - 588 pages
...of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory, on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor ? " Her strength diminished day by day; gradually she was obliged to relinquish her active habits,... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - 396 pages
...of variety and glow ? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ? ' You will hear from uncle Henry how well Anna is. She seems perfectly recovered. Ben was here on... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labor ?" It is precisely in this fifte work and assiduous labor that the excellence of Miss Austen's... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 396 pages
...of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ? ' You will hear from uncle Henry how well Anna is. She seems perfectly recovered. Ben was here on... | |
 | 1885 - 480 pages
...better the precise limits of her own powers. She speaks of the ' little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little...ever lived, as G. II. Lewes told Miss Bronte (MRS. GASKELL'B Life of Charlutte Bronte, ch. Jtvi.), with a nicer sense of proportioning means to ends.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 490 pages
...better the precise limits of i her own powers. She speaks of the ' little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect lifter much labour.' All critics agree to the unequalled fineness of her literary tact ; no author... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 334 pages
...of variety and glow ? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labor ? JANE AUSTEN : Letter to her Nephew, quoted in ' Memoir,' by Austen-Leigh. Read ' Emma,' —... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1889 - 248 pages
...of variety and glow ? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour ? " Early in 1801 the home at Steventon was broken up. Mr. Austen resigned his living in consequence... | |
 | Halkett Lord - 1890 - 302 pages
...of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor?" In that minute scale and high finish we have the secret, in our opinion, both of the delight... | |
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What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow ? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ?... 
