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The Noble Traytour: A Chronicle
by Thomas of Swarraton, Thomas (of Swarraton.) - 1857
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Pique [by S. Ellis].

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1850 - 328 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction."—Examiner. TALES OF THE COLONIES; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF AN EMIGRANT. BY CHARLES ROWCROFT....
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Pique [by S. Ellis].

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1850 - 332 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction."—Examiner. TALES OF THE COLONIES; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF AN EMIGRANT. BY CHARLES ROWCROPT....
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Rose Douglas; or, Sketches of a country parish, by S.R.W.

Sarah R. Whitehead - 1851 - 330 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction."—Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's,...
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Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift

Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1851 - 288 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction."—Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's,...
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Education, as a Means of Preventing Destitution: With Exemplifications from ...

William Ellis - Education - 1851 - 184 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction."—Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's,...
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Military memoir of lieut.-col. James Skinner, Volume 2

James Baillie Fraser - India - 1851 - 280 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction."—Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's,...
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The royalist and the republican, Volume 3

Royalist - 1852 - 278 pages
...lEHts, antr acton 23ell. i. SHIRLEY ; a. Tale. By CURRER BELL. A new Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth. (Now ready.) " The peculiar power which was so greatly...interest, and an irresistible grasp of reality. There is a vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. The power of graphic delineation...
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The history of Henry Esmond, esq., written by himself. (By W.M. Thackeray).

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 374 pages
...lEUts, antr acton 33ell. i. SHIRLEY ; a Tale. By CURRER BELL. A new Edition. Crown 8vo, 6*. cloth. " The peculiar power which was so greatly admired in...interest, and an irresistible grasp of reality. There is a vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. The power of graphic delineation...
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Poetics: An Essay on Poetry

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...lEllis, anft acton 28eII. i. SHIRLEY ; a Tale. By CURRER BELL. A new Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth. " The peculiar power which was so greatly admired in...interest, and an irresistible grasp of reality. There is a vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. The power of graphic delineation...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...feelings."—Globe. SHorfcs of (JCuntr ii. SHIRLEY; a Tale. By CURRER BELL. A new Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth. " The peculiar power which was so greatly admired in...interest, and an irresistible grasp of reality. There is a vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. The power of graphic delineation...
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