 Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some future work the habits of life, and character, and enthusiasm of a clergyman, who should pass his time between the metropolis and the country, who should be something like Beattie's Minstrel...  Littell's Living Age - Page 331870Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...no doubt, like Narcissus, with his own dear image, offered a tentative suggestion that she should ' delineate in some future work the habits of life and...his time between the metropolis and the country.' He was to be ' fond of and engaged entirely in literature, no man's enemy but his own,' and he was... | |
 | 1870 - 942 pages
...by the way, which we do not clearly understand if she ever availed herself of; and, in addition, he proposes to her a subject for a book. " I also, dear...shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, though none knew why.' Neither Goldsmith, nor La Fontaine in his 'Tableau de Famille,'... | |
 | England - 1870 - 832 pages
...by the way, which we do not clearly understand if she ever availed herself of ; and, in addition, he proposes to her a subject for a book. " I also, dear...metropolis and the country, who should be something like Seattle's minstrel — ' Silent when glad, affectionate though shy, And in his looks was most demurely... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - Novelists, English - 1871 - 396 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel — Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why. Neither... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...preposterous suggestions offered to her by Mr. Clarke. The one was for her to pourtray the habits of life, character, and enthusiasm of a clergyman who should pass his time between London and the country, and who should bear some resemblance to Beattie's Minstrel. In a letter in... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 396 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel — Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why. Neither... | |
 | Jane Austen - Novelists, English - 1884 - 388 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel — • Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his looks w/is most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why. Neither... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - 242 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel — " ' Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why.' "... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Malden - 1889 - 240 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so. And I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...country, who should be something like Beattie's Minstrel — " ' Silont when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad ; And now he... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - Novelists, English - 1891 - 304 pages
...me. In the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write and say so; and I also, dear Madam, wished to be allowed to ask you to delineate in some...Beattie's Minstrel, — " Silent when glad, affectionate tho' shy, And in his looks was most demurely sad ; And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why." Neither... | |
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