 What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow ? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ?...  Lady Susan ; The Watsons - Strona 310autor: Jane Austen - 1892 - Liczba stron: 352Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - Liczba stron: 396
...of my own would have been something. I do not think, however, that any theft of that sort would be really very useful to me. What should I do with your...fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ? ' You will hear from uncle Henry how well Anna is. She seems perfectly recovered. Ben was... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - Liczba stron: 420
...his strong, manly, vigorous sketches, full of variety and glow ? How could she possibly have joined them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which she worked with so fine a brush as produced little effect after much labour ? * The novel of the year.... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - Liczba stron: 396
...of my own would have been something. I do not think, however, that any theft of that sort would be really very useful to me. What should I do with your...fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ? ' You will hear from uncle Henry how well Anna is. She seems perfectly recovered. Ben was... | |
 | 1885 - Liczba stron: 480
...brilliant suggestion. No writer ever understood better the precise limits of her own powers. She speaks of the ' little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which...fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.' All critics agree to the unequalled fineness of her literary tact ; no author ever lived,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - Liczba stron: 490
...suggestion. No writer ever understood better the precise limits of i her own powers. She speaks of the ' little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which...work with so fine a brush as produces little effect lifter much labour.' All critics agree to the unequalled fineness of her literary tact ; no author... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1889 - Liczba stron: 258
...chapters into her own novel; but she adds: "I do not think, however, that any theft of that sort would be really very useful to me. What should I do with your...fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour ? " Early in 1801 the home at Steventon was broken up. Mr. Austen resigned his living in consequence... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1889 - Liczba stron: 248
...useful to me. What should I do with your strong, manly, vigorous sketches, full of variety and glow 1 How' could I possibly join them on to the little bit...fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour ? " Early in 1801 the home at Steventon was broken up. Mr. Austen resigned his living in consequence... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - Liczba stron: 346
...always, within the limits of the frame, is absurd. She compares her own work to miniature-painting on ivory, " on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.1' In loving elaboration of detail she resembles no other writer so much as a special IX.] Jane... | |
 | Walter Herries Pollock - 1899 - Liczba stron: 144
...theatricals by way of ' The comparison, it is true, has its origin in Miss Austen's own description of ' the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which...with so fine a brush as produces little effect after so much labour.' This however was an intensely characteristic piece of true, but mistaken, modesty.... | |
 | Walter Herries Pollock - 1899 - Liczba stron: 144
...theatricals by way of 1 The comparison, it is true, has its origin in Miss Austen's own description of ' the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which...with so fine a brush as produces little effect after so much labour.' This however was an intensely characteristic piece of true, but mistaken, modesty.... | |
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