 This work may be considered a kind of supplement to Boswell's Life of Johnson. It is a beautiful picture of society as it existed in manners, taste, and literature, in the early period of the reign of George the Third, drawn by a pencil as vivid and brilliant...  Algeria and Tunis in 1845 - Page 6by John Clark Kennedy - 1846Full view - About this book
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 430 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming...presents an unrivalled combination of attraction. I That extraordinary man Johnson is painted far better than he is by Boswell." — Court Journal. "... | |
 | Anne Mary Louisa (duchess of Montpensier.) - 1848 - 322 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming...persons and things, will be perused with interest by all chsses of readers."— Post. "This work presents an unrivalled combination of attraction. That extraordinary... | |
 | Thomas Birch, Robert Folkestone Williams - 1848 - 576 pages
...vivid aud brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming...gossip, and full of sound and discreet views of persons nnd things, will be perused with interest by all classes of readers."-— Post. "This work presents... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1848 - 376 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persona who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming...gossip, and full of sound and discreet views of persons find things, will be perused with interest by all classes of readers." — Post. "This work presents... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1848 - 506 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. " Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming with...gossip, and full of sound and discreet views of persons und things, will be perused with interest by all classes of readers."'— Post. "This work presents... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 436 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming...delectable gossip, and full of sound and discreet view» of persons mid things, will be perused with interest by all classes of readers." — Post. "This... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 452 pages
...as that of any of tho colebniled persons who composed tho cirtlo.'' — Alcxscttyer. " Miss Hume y's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming with lively anecdote, and delectable gossip, and full of sound and disereet views of persons and things, will bo perused witb interest by all classes of readers." —... | |
 | Sir Robert Murray Keith - 1849 - 558 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. " Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming with...presents an unrivalled combination of attraction. That extracidinary man Johnson is painted far better than he is by Boswell." — Court Journal. " We know... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1849 - 300 pages
...brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Bumey's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming with lively anecdote,...discreet views of persons and things, will be perused witb interest by all classes of readers."-— Post. "Tina work presents an unrivalled combination of... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 528 pages
...vivid and brilliant as that of any of the celebrated persons who composed the circle." — Messenger. "Miss Burney's Diary, sparkling with wit, teeming...delectable gossip, and full of sound and discreet view* of persons and things, will be perused with interest by all clisses of readers." — Post. "This... | |
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