The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1870 - 344 páginas |
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Adieu admiration Alresford amused beautiful believe beloved Bertram House Bickham Blanch BLANCH OF CASTILE bless certainly character charming Coffee House cousin dancing daughter dear friend dear Sir William delightful dinner English eyes fancy father favourite fear feeling flowers fondly French genius give grace greyhound Hans Place happy hear Heaven honour hope kind Lady Charles letter Little Harle London Lord Lord Byron Lord Cochrane M. R. M. TO SIR M. R. MITFORD Madame Madame de Staël mamma Marmion Mary Mitford MARY RUSSELL MITFORD mind Miss Mitford Miss Rowden morning Morpeth mother never obliged Ogle papa play pleasure Plymouth poem poetry poor praise Pray pretty Quintin sincerely and affectionately SIR WILLIAM ELFORD Star Office sure sweet talk taste tell thee thing thousand to-morrow town verses Walter Scott Watlington wish write yesterday young
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Página 212 - the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falsehood.
Página 264 - Narrative Poems on the Female Character, in the Various Relations of Life,
Página 296 - With regard to novels, I should like to see one undertaken without any plot at all. I do not mean that it should have no story ; but I should like some writer of luxuriant fancy to begin with a certain set of characters — one family, for instance — without any preconceived design...
Página 294 - ... that ever existed, and that, till Pride and Prejudice showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or a fire-screen, or any other thin upright piece of wood or iron that fills its corner in peace and quietness. The case is very different now ; she is still a poker — but a poker of whom every one is afraid. It must be confessed that this silent observation from such an observer is rather formidable. Most writers are good-humoured...
Página 14 - ... there were few of the prettiest children of her age who won so much love and admiration from their friends, whether young or old, as little Mary Mitford.
Página 286 - ... a voice between grunting and croaking, a perpetual hoarseness which suffocates his words, and a vulgarity of manner which his admirers are pleased to call nature — the nature of Teniers it may be, but not that of Rafaelle. I am quite sure that in any character where he can possibly raise his voice above conversation pitch — where there is anything like strong writing that he can contrive to rant, or anything resembling passion for him to tear to rags — his acting will always be, if not...
Página 319 - Hawkins and Brompton ! • I am convinced that people read them for the story, to enjoy the stimulus of a novel without the name, just as some valetudinarians swallow drams from the apothecaries under the name of stomachics. Ah ! they had better take South, and Blair, and Seeker for guides, and go for amusement to Miss Edgeworth and Miss Austen. Bythe-way, how delightful is her " Emma !" — the best, I think, of all her charming works.
Página 137 - The saloon at the foot of the staircase represented a bower with a grotto, lined with a profusion of shrubs and flowers. The grand table extended the -whole length of the conservatory, and across Carlton House to the length of 200 feet.
Página 308 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek; Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold...
Página 286 - Well, I went to see Mr. Kean, and was thoroughly disgusted. This monarch of the stage is a little insignificant man, slightly deformed, strongly ungraceful, seldom pleasing the eye, still seldomer satisfying the ear — with a voice between grunting and croaking, a perpetual hoarseness which suffocates his words, and a vulgarity of manner which his admirers are pleased to call nature — the nature of Teniers it may be, but not that of Rafaelle.