... is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with so much ease, and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader is not only enchanted... The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Pagina 165door Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 400 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pagina’s
...with fo much eafe, and fpirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the ferene tranquillity of high life, that the reader is not...AFTER dinner, we adjourned into the garden, where I obferved, Mr S gave a fhort feparate audience to every individual in a finall remote filbert walk,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 560 pagina’s
...with fo much eafe, and fpirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the ferene tranquillity of high life, that the rea,der is not...After dinner, we adjourned into the garden, where I obferved, Mr. S gave a fliort feparate audience to every individual, in a fmall remote filbert walk,... | |
| 1820 - 280 pagina’s
...of virtue, with so much ease and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader...small remote filbert walk, from whence most of them dropt off one after another, without further ceremony ; but they were replaced by fresh recruits of... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pagina’s
...of virtue, with so much ease and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader...enchanted by their genius, but reformed by their morality. among others, a spruce bookseller, called Birkin, who rode his own gelding, and made his appearance... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pagina’s
...for his want of singularity. — After dinner we adjourned into the garden, when I observed S gave a separate audience to every individual, in a small remote filbert walk, from whence most off them dropped off; but they were replaced by fresh recruits of the same clan, who came to make an... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pagina’s
...all in the serene tranquillity of bigh life, that the reader is not only enchanted by iheir geniu», but reformed by their morality. After dinner, we adjourned into the garden., -where I observed Mr. S give a short separate audience to every individual in a small remote filbert walk, from whence most... | |
| Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pagina’s
...of virtue, with so much ease, and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader...most of them dropped ofF, one after another, without further ceremony ; but they were replaced by fresh recruits of the same clan, who came to make an afternoon's... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pagina’s
...of virtue, with so much ease, and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader...most of them dropped off one after another, without further ceremony ; but they were replaced by fresh recruits of the same class, who came to make an... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pagina’s
...amends for his want of singularity. After dinner we adjourned into the garden, when I observed S gave a separate audience to every individual, in a small...filbert walk, from whence most of them dropped off; but they were replaced by fresh recruits of the same clan, who came to make an afternoon's visit. After... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...of virtue, with so much ease, and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader...adjourned into the garden, where I observed Mr. S — give a short separate audience to every individual in a small remote filbert- walk, from whence... | |
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