 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting, from...is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." ... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...involvements, and feelings, ' and characters of ordinary life;' — 'the exquisite touch which ren' tiers commonplace things and characters interesting from the ' truth of the description and the sentiment. '§ In this talent the female novel writers of Great Britain surpass those of France. In bold and startling... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early ! "March 15. — -This morning I leave No. 39, Castle Street, for the last time. ' The... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early ! "March 15. — This morning I leave No. 39, Castle Street, for the last time. ' The... | |
 | 1848 - 706 pages
...bow-irow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20. — Glimpses of... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1848 - 726 pages
...bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20. — Glimpucs of... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...l>oic-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died 50 early." 20. — Glimptes of... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...big bowwow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !'' A few days afterwards, remarking upon another novel, he says: — "It is well written,... | |
 | 1852 - 536 pages
...bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from...is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early !" An Edinburgh Reviewer justly remarks, that ordinary readers have been apt to judge... | |
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That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders... 
