 | Annie Forbes Bush - 1843 - Liczba stron: 424
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost erery qualification of a good book— grace, variety, and vigour of style —...important questions — a hearty and generous love of country— and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1847 - Liczba stron: 334
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book — grace, variety, and vigour of style...important questions— a hearty and generous love of country— and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant... | |
 | Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess) - 1847 - Liczba stron: 346
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book — grace, variety, and vigour of style...important questions — a hearty and generous love of country— and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1848 - Liczba stron: 376
...edition. We shall be »urpriaed if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book — grace, variety, and vigour of style...pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant attraction to its pages. We can cordially recommend it to our readers, as... | |
 | William A. Ross - 1848 - Liczba stron: 350
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book — grace, variety, and vigour of style...pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant attraction to its pages. We can cordially recommend it to our readers, as... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - Liczba stron: 430
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book — grace, variety, and vigour of style...important questions — a hearty and generous love of country— and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - Liczba stron: 472
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book— grace, variety, and vigour of style—...important questions — a hearty and generous love of country— and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant... | |
 | Anne Mary Louisa (duchess of Montpensier.) - 1848 - Liczba stron: 322
...edition. We shall be surprised if it do not go through many. It possesses almost every qualification of a good book— grace, variety, and vigour of style —...enlarged views of important questions — a hearty oud generous love of country — and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour,... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - Liczba stron: 452
...book — grace, variety, nnd vigour of stylo — a concentrated power of deseription, which basal) the effect of elaborate painting — information carefully...important questions — a hearty and generous love of country— and the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - Liczba stron: 518
...carefully collected and judiciously communicated—sound and enlarged views of important questions—a hearty and generous love of country—and the whole...pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant attraction to its pages. We can cordially recommend it to our readers, as... | |
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... the whole pervaded by a refined but sometimes caustic humour, which imparts a constant attraction to its pages. We can cordially recommend it to our readers, as well for the amusement of its lighter portions, the vivid brilliancy of its descriptions,... 
