 | Frederick William Robinson - 1855 - 360 pagina’s
...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 t Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoat;. Her Diary is written... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1855 - 396 pagina’s
...her ; tor Bnrke had sat np all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her snperior 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... | |
 | Julia Cecilia Stretton - 1856 - 346 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | George Laval Chesterton - 1856 - 332 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Martha Walker Freer (afterwards Mrs. John Robinson) - 1856 - 370 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | lady Charlotte Susan M. Bury - 1856 - 366 pagina’s
...accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs eeemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had...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... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - 1856 - 394 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Frances Margaret Taylor - 1856 - 340 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Frederick Metcalfe - 1856 - 356 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
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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,... 
