 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1841 - 856 pages
...whirled half over Europe at the chariot wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit...every person it contains ; or to ramble with Mr. White f over his own parish of Selborne, and form a friendship with the fields and coppices, as well as with... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1841 - 688 pages
...half over Europe at the chariot wheels of a hero, to со to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid ; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....one of Miss Austen's delicious novels, quite sure hefore we leave it to hecome intimate with every spot and every person it contains ; or to ramhle with... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1846 - 684 pages
...half over Europe at the chariot wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid ; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....we leave it to become intimate with every spot and eœry person it contains ; or to ramble with Mr. White f over his own parish of Selbornc, and form... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1850 - 684 pages
...whirled half over Europe at the chariot wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....Miss Austen's delicious novels, quite sure before we leavo it to become intimate with every spot and every person it contains; or to ramble with Mr. White... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 588 pages
...whirled half over Europe at the chariot-wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Verona and awaken at Madrid 1 It produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....intimate with every spot and every person it contains." Most readers of the novels in question will admit the justice of this remark, and agree that no completer... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Animals - 1893 - 324 pages
...half over Europe at the chariot-wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid ; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....and every person it contains ; or to ramble with Mr. White1 over his own parish of Selborne, and form a friendship with the fields and coppices, as well... | |
 | Constance Hill - Authors, English - 1902 - 348 pages
...whirled half over Europe at the chariotwheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna and awaken at Madrid ; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....intimate with every spot and every person it contains." Miss Mitford loved to write of a small com pact "community, "a little world of our own " she calls... | |
 | Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell - Literary Collections - 1996 - 760 pages
...whirled half over Europe at the chariot wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit....and every person it contains; or to ramble with Mr. White2 over his own parish of Selborne, and form a friendship with the fields and coppices, as well... | |
 | Kathryn Sutherland - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 420 pages
...constant residence, that which appears to me most delightful is a little village far in the country... nothing is so delightful as to sit down in a country...village in one of Miss Austen's delicious novels.' The sleight by which a literary reference stands in for and guarantees the real ('a little village... | |
 | Jane Austen - Literary Collections - 2006 - 56 pages
...many to rent out their ancestral homes in the country. Mary Russell Mitford, who claimed nothing was 'so delightful as to sit down in a country village in one of Miss Austen's delicious novels', condemned the prevalent 'spirit of migration': in Hampshire all 'mansions are let, or to be let. The... | |
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Nothing is so tiresome as to be whirled half over Europe at the chariot-wheels of a hero, to go to sleep at Vienna, and awaken at Madrid ; it produces a real fatigue, a weariness of spirit. On the other hand, nothing is so delightful as to sit down in... 