 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,...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 5231843Full view - About this book
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 766 pages
...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...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southcy still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | George William Johnson - India - 1843 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | John Mills - 1843 - 294 pages
...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 lively.... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - Biography - 1843 - 420 pages
...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...Fielding, when Rogers was still a school-boy, and Scmthey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
 | Annie Forbes Bush - France - 1843 - 424 pages
...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 Hogers was still a schoolboy, and Souihey still in petticoats. Her Diaiy is written in her earliest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...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...lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before anybody had heard of some illustrious men who, twenty, thirty, or forty years ago, were, after a long... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pages
...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 tn her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - Spain - 1845 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 602 pages
...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 Hester Stanhope - British - 1845 - 460 pages
...accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for liurke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had...to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Sou they still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's... | |
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