 She had a mind peculiarly well stored with much acquired information and natural talent, and as she was very old, and had an excellent memory, she could draw without the least exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If...  The Caledonian - Page 81904Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do any thing in the way of painting the past times, it is very...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness; for our friends Mr. and Mrs.... | |
 | Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...exaggeration or affectation, the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do any thing in the way of painting the past times, it is very...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness; for our friends Mr. and Mrs.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 408 pages
...most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do any thing in the way of painting tKe past times, it is very much from the studies with...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness; for our friends Mr and Mrs Scott... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 428 pages
...exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do any thing in the way of painting the past times, it is very....a person who perfectly recollected the battle of Ounbar, and Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry int. Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 454 pages
...could draw without the least exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do anything in the way of painting...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness ; for our friends Mr and Mrs Scott... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 458 pages
...without the least exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have heen able to do anything in the way of painting the past...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness ; for our friends Mr and Mrs Scott... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...death he says to Lady Louisa Stuart (who had seen and been much pleased with the old lady) : — " If I have been able to do anything in the way of painting...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness ; for our friends Mr and Mrs Scott... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...her death he says to Lady Louisa Stuart (who had seen and been much pleased with the old lady):—" If I have been able to do anything in the way of painting...studies with which she presented me. She connected a loug period of time with the present generation, for she remembered, and had often spoken with, a person... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...could draw without the least exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do anything in the way of painting...with a person who perfectly recollected the battle ofDunbar, and Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh." THRELKELD. Cambridge. Mayors re-elected... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 328 pages
...affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I * Lines on the death of Mr. Eobert Levet. have been able to do anything in the way of painting...Oliver Cromwell's subsequent entry into Edinburgh. She preserved her faculties to the very day before her final illness ; for our friends Mr. and Mrs.... | |
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