 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...  Life of Sir Walter Scott - Page 137by Charles Duke Yonge - 1888 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...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...and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." ... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...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...and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 430 pages
...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...and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !... | |
 | Commerce - 1848 - 706 pages
...is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-irow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary...things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20.... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1848 - 726 pages
...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...things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20.... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...is to me the moat wonderful I ever met with. The b:_: l>oic-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary...things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died 50 early." 20.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bowwow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary...and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !''... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Women - 1850 - 230 pages
...which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow slraiu I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary, common-place things and characters interesting, trom the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied me. What a pity such a gifted creature died... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Women - 1850 - 232 pages
...wliich 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, common-place things and characters inU'resting, Irom the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied me. What a pity such a gifted... | |
 | 1852 - 516 pages
...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...and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !"... | |
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