 | Walter Herries Pollock - 1899 - Broj stranica: 144
...the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up. Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1906 - Broj stranica: 520
...the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up. Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable... | |
 | 1922 - Broj stranica: 634
...the English familiar with the character of their gay and kindhearted neighbours of Ireland that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up. . . . I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - Broj stranica: 364
...with the character of their gay and kindhearted neighbors may truly be said to have done more toward completing the union than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed up." Such laurels were enough for her fame — did not braver ones grow out of the thumb-worn edges of her... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - Broj stranica: 378
...with the character of their gay and kindhearted neighbors may truly be said to have done more toward completing the union than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed up." Such laurels were enough for her fame — did not braver ones grow out of the thumb- worn edges of... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Broj stranica: 850
...English familiar with the character of their gay and kindhearted neighbours of Ireland, that she maybe truly said to have done more towards completing the...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up. Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - Broj stranica: 766
...the English familiar with the character of their gay and kindhearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up. Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1928 - Broj stranica: 278
...the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up. Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable... | |
 | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - Broj stranica: 668
...Waverlry (1814) and still more fully in the 1829 General Preface to the series, where he remarks that Edgeworth "may be truly said to have done more towards...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up" (1972: 493, 523). The two became friends, exchanging visits and many letters. 7 The ground-breaking... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider, Timothy Dykstal - 1996 - Broj stranica: 286
...the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing...legislative enactments by which it has been followed up." Sir Walter Scott, 1829 General Preface, Waverley (1814)2 "[A]s Scott is the authority for Scotch character,... | |
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Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the legislative enactments... 
