 | 1843 - 630 pages
...she was no longer among us. The news of her death carried the minds of men back at one leap, clear over two generations, to the time when her first literary...and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, whe.u Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Yet more strange did it seem that... | |
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...children when compared with her; for Buike had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson bad pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was...still in petticoats. Yet more strange did it seem th;it we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before any body had heard... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 766 pages
...accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her ; for Burko had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southcy still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | John Mills - 1843 - 294 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1843 - 324 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - 1843 - 420 pages
...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...Fielding, when Rogers was still a school-boy, and Scmthey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | Annie Forbes Bush - 1843 - 424 pages
...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 Hogers was still a schoolboy, and Souihey still in petticoats. Her Diaiy is written in her earliest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...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...lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before anybody had heard of some illustrious men who, twenty, thirty, or forty years ago, were, after a long... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pages
...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...still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written tn her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1845 - 424 pages
...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...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... | |
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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,... 
