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" Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how proudly would she have produced the book, and told its name; though the chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication,... "
Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England: From the Commencement of the Last ... - Page 178
by Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1843
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Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion, Volume 1

Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...and topics of conversation, which no longer concern cern any one living; and their language, too, frequently so coarse as to give no very favourable idea...
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Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion

Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...very favourable idea of the age that could endure it. CHAPTER VI. THE following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the Pump-room one...
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Northanger Abbey [and] Persuasion

Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...topics of conversation, which no longer concern any one li ving ; and their language, too, frequently so coarse as to give no very favourable Lidea of the...
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Northanger Abbey, And, Persuasion

Jane Austen - 1837 - 456 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...very favourable idea of the age that could endure it. CHAPTER VI. THE following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the Pump-room one...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 67

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - 578 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied by any part of the voluminous ' publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...favourable idea of the age that could endure it." How surprised the author of this spirited remonstrance would be, could »he know the present status...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century

William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied with any part of that voluminous publication of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...longer concern any one living; and their language frequently BO coarse as to give no very favorable idea of the age that could endure it." The object...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied with any part of that voluminous publication of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...longer concern any one living; and their language frequently so coarse as to give no very favorable idea of the age that could endure it." The object...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied with any part of that voluminous publication of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...longer concern any one living; and their language frequently so coarse as to give no very favourable idea of the age that could endure it." The object...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied with any part of that voluminous publication of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...consisting in the statement of improbable circumstances, ujjn'atural characters, and topics of conversation which 010 longer concern any one living ; and their...
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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen - 1882 - 450 pages
...chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person...very favourable idea of the age that could endure it CHAPTER VI. THE following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the Pump-room one...
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