 | 1902 - Liczba stron: 874
...quotations The Nineteenth Century and After. and allusions, which a woman who,, like me, knows only her mother tongue, and has read little in that, would...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. This diffidence in reply to a very flattering invitation is truly refreshing. Nowadays an author, without... | |
 | 1917 - Liczba stron: 882
...equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic. ' the literary. ... I think I may boast myself with ail possible vanity the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Mr. Clarke, who doubtless believed her, returned briskly to the charge. As private secretary to Prince... | |
 | 1870 - Liczba stron: 878
...strange fact to Mr. Clarke. She answers him with admirable gravity, demurely setting herself forth as "the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress," and consequently quite incapable of " drawing such a clergyman as you give the sketch of. ... Such... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - Liczba stron: 872
...conversation of such a man would naturally abound. She ended by adding that she could boast herself ' to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.' But Mr. Clarke could not abandon the hope of directing the pen of so amiable a writer. He expressed... | |
 | 1870 - Liczba stron: 942
...strange fact to Mr. Clarke. She answers him with admirable gravity, demurely setting herself forth as "the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress," and consequently quite incapable of "drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of. ... Such a... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - Liczba stron: 396
...thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of in your note of Nov. i6th. But I assure you I am not. The comic part of the character...Believe me, dear Sir, ' Your obliged and faithful hum"1 Ser*. 'JANE AUSTEN.'* Mr. Clarke, however, was not to be discouraged from proposing another subject.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - Liczba stron: 740
...city and country, absorbed in his literary studies. " The comic part of the character," she replies, " I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic,...uninformed female who ever dared to "be an authoress." Again, in a letter to a friend, who appears to have been engaged in the composition of a romance :... | |
 | 1914 - Liczba stron: 546
...memory for what he read, we are tempted to agree with Jane Austen's estimate of herself that she was ' the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.' 6 In ' Persuasion,' Jane Austen's last and most touching novel, we are introduced to a poetical Captain... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - Liczba stron: 420
...was far beyond her. Perhaps in self-defence from similar assaults, she concludes by boasting herself, "with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress." But the irrepressible Mr. Clarke was not to be deterred from his purpose of advising the novelist as... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - Liczba stron: 334
...moderate Toryism which prevailed in her family. REV. JE AUSTEN-LEIGH : ' A Memoir of Jane Austen.' I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible . , . vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed A modest * ' opinion, female who ever dared to be an authoress. JANE AUSTEN : Letter to Mr. JS Clarke,... | |
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... mother tongue, and has read little in that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient and modern, appears to me quite indispensable for the person... 
