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,... Algeria and Tunis in 1845 - Page 6by John Clark Kennedy - 1846Full view - About this book
| 1843 - 632 pages
...accustomed to reveie as intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for Buike had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson bad...still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Yet more strange did it seem th;it we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated... | |
| 1843 - 630 pages
...over two generations, to the time when her first literary triumphs were won. All those whom we had been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs,...seemed children when compared with her ; for Burke had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, whe.u... | |
| Fanny Burney - 1842 - 766 pages
...went hence, that seal which is seldom set, except on the fame of the departed. All those whom we huvc been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her ; for Burko had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding,... | |
| Annie Forbes Bush - 1843 - 424 pages
...went hence, that seal which is seldom set except on the fame of tlie departed. All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs...sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Hogers was still a schoolboy, and Souihey still in petticoats.... | |
| George William Johnson - 1843 - 324 pages
...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...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.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 pages
...over two generations, to the time when her first literary triumphs were won. All those whom we had been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs,...sat up all night to read her writings, a'nd Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats.... | |
| John Mills - 1843 - 294 pages
...went hence that seal which is seldom set except on the fame of the departed. All those whom we hare been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs...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.... | |
| Sir James Stephen - 1843 - 420 pages
...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...sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a school-boy, and Scmthey still in petticoats.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...over two generations, to the time when her first literary triumphs were won. All those whom we had been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs,...compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to rend her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy,... | |
| 1843 - 1266 pages
...over two generations, to the time when her first literary triumphs were won. All those whom we had been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs,...seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sate up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers... | |
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