 | Henrietta Keddie - 1854 - 322 pages
...accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat np all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Sonthey still in petticoatg. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; hi true woman's... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - 1854 - 330 pages
...compared with her; for Bnrke had sat np all night to read her writings, and Johnson had prononnced 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1855 - 270 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... | |
 | Campbell Hardy - 1855 - 344 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... | |
 | George T. Lowth - 1855 - 400 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... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1855 - 432 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 342 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...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Soothey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1855 - 428 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...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southej still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1855 - 356 pages
...accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Bnrke had sat np all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Sonthey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's... | |
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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,... 
