A Study of Maria Edgeworth: With Notices of Her Father and FriendsA. Williams and Company, 1882 - Broj stranica: 567 |
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Abbotsford acquaintance admiration affectionate agreeable anecdote appeared Barbauld beautiful Black Bourton Bowood brother called Castle Castle Rackrent character charming conversation Darwin daughter dear death delightful Dublin Duchess Duchess of Wellington Dugald Stewart Dumont Edgeworth wrote Edgeworthstown Edinburgh England excellent eyes father feel felt French gave genius give gratified Hall happy Hare Hatch heard heart Helen honor hope humor Inchbald interest Ireland Irish Joanna Baillie kind Lady Lansdowne letter literary lived London Longford look Lord Lansdowne Lord Longford Mackintosh manner MARIA EDGEWORTH Maria wrote Memoir ment mind Miss Edge Miss Edgeworth natural never novel Pakenham Pakenham Hall Paris party person pleasure published recollect says seemed seen Sir Walter Scott sister Sneyd society speak Staël Stewart story talents tell thing thought tion told Waverley wife wish worth writing written young
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Stranica 377 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Stranica 207 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Stranica 413 - The first was the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland...
Stranica 218 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Stranica 282 - It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings ; so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the " Teagues " and "dear joys," who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.
Stranica 398 - O'Kelly; and he had produced on the spur of the occasion this modest parody of Dryden's famous epigram : — ' Three poets of three different nations born, The United Kingdom in this age adorn ; Byron of England, Scott of Scotia's blood, And Erin's pride — O'Kelly, great and good.
Stranica 4 - In a few years, my father found himself in easy circumstances ; and in 1732 he married Jane Lovell, daughter of Samuel Lovell, a Welsh judge, who was son of Sir Salathiel Lovell, that recorder of London, who, at the trial of the seven bishops, in the reign of James II, proved himself to be a good man, though he was but an indifferent lawyer. He lived to the age of ninety-four, and had so much lost his memory, as to be called the obliviscor of London. Of him I have heard my father relate an anecdote,...
Stranica 30 - Mr. Watt, Dr. Darwin, Mr. Wedgwood, Mr. Day, and myself together — men of very different characters, but all devoted to literature and science. This mutual intimacy has never been broken but by death, nor have any of the number failed to distinguish themselves in science or literature.
Stranica 67 - Things and persons are so much improved in Ireland of latter days, that only those who can remember how they were some thirty or forty years ago can conceive the variety of domestic grievances which, in those times, assailed the master of a family, immediately upon his arrival at his Irish home. Wherever he turned his eyes, in or out of his house, damp, dilapidation, waste ! appeared. Painting, glazing, roofing, fencing, finishing — all were wanting.
Stranica 413 - Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for...