The Stranger in India: Or, Three Years in Calcutta, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1843 |
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Pagina 12 - Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming with lively anecdote, and delectable gossip, and full of sound and discreet views of persons and things, will be perused with interest by all classes of readers.
Pagina 6 - HMS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE. Cheaper Edition, in 2 large vols. 8vo, with Maps, Charts, and upwards of Sixty Illustrations, by Landseer, and other eminents Artists, price I/. 11s. 6d. bound. " One of the most interesting narratives of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to notice, and which must always occupy a distinguished space in the history of scientific navigation.
Pagina 12 - Madame d'Arblay lived to be a classic. Time set on her fame, before she went hence, that seal which is seldom set except on the fame of the departed. All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Kogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats.
Pagina 2 - The best genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, and the first authority on all questions affecting the aristocracy.
Pagina 12 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...
Pagina 259 - The Governor-General confidently hopes that the Shah will be speedily replaced on his throne by his own subjects and adherents ; and when once he shall be secured in power, and the independence and integrity of Afghanistan established, the British army will be withdrawn.
Pagina 3 - I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age ; and I loved, and cultivated him accordingly. He was much in my heart, and I believe I was in his to the very last beat.
Pagina 1 - This interesting and well-written work, in which the severe truth of history takes almost the wildness of romance, will constitute a valuable addition to our biographical literature.
Pagina 5 - ... first time places that splendid achievement in its proper light. A voyage down the Indus follows, which is replete with interesting description and valuable information, and the work concludes with a clever and amusing narrative of the author's journey overland to England."— ATi Monthly.
Pagina 254 - is not Russia to aid you, through means of Persia ; and how does the Shah act towards you ? He addresses you as his vassals, and calls your country a part of his own. Are Lord Auckland's letters or views couched in such terms : Certainly not.