 This novel amply sustains the fame of the author of ' Jane Lyre' and ' Shirley' as an original and powerful writer." — Examiner. SHIRLEY. BY CURRER BELL. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth. " The peculiar power which was so greatly admired in ' Jane Eyre' is not...  The Bhilsa Topes: Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central Indiaby Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1854 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1848 - 266 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There Is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...transcended in the range of English fiction."— Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's, or Walter Scott's.... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1849 - 306 pages
...grasp of reality. There Is viridne«s and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. Tlwre are scenes which, for strength and delicacy of emotion,...transcended in the range of English fiction."— Examiner' " Then' is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edge worth's, or Walter Scott's.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann - Authors, German - 1850 - 472 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...transcended in the range of English fiction.*' — Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's, or Walter Scott'i.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...interesting. — Philadelphia Sat. Evening Post. The women in "Shirley" are marvelously real. — Albion. There are scenes which for strength and delicacy of emotion are not transcended in the range of'English fiction. — London Examiner. There is a racy novelty in its style, in its minute analysis... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...interesting. — Philadelphia Sat. Evening Post. The women in "Shirley" are marvelously real. — Albion. There are scenes which for strength and delicacy of emotion are not transcended in the range of*English fiction. — London Examiner. There is a racy novelty in its style, in its minute analysis... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - 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...transcended in the range of English fiction." — Examiner. " There is something in it of kin to Jane Austen's books, or Maria Edgeworth's, or Walter Scott's.... | |
 | John Forbes Royle - 1851 - 678 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception In it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...transcended in the range of English fiction.*' — Examiner. IT. POEMS. By CURRER, ELLIS, AND ACTON BELL. Fcap. 8vo., 4*. cloth. " A volume of poems whin will not... | |
 | J. Forbes Royle - Cotton growing - 1851 - 664 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There Is vividness and distinctness of conception in It quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...transcended in the range of English fiction."— Examiner. PIQUE. A NOVEL. In Three Volumes. Post 8vo. ** In this clover book, the enforcement of a sound, social... | |
 | John Forbes Royle - Cotton - 1851 - 664 pages
...irresistible grasp of reality. There is vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy...transcended in the range of English fiction."— Examiner. Iv. POEMS. By CURRER, ELLIS, AND ACTON BELL. Fcap. 8vo., 4*. cloth. " A volume of poems whirh will... | |
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