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" That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which... "
A New General Biographical Dictionary - Page 343
by Hugh James Rose - 1857
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Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, Volume 1

Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is,...the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary common-place...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 8

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 430 pages
...written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is...the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is...the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace...
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of ..., Volume 4

Biography - 1844 - 440 pages
...says Sir Walter, in another passage of his Diary, " had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with." The truth of her dialogue, the thorough preservation of character in every action, in every speech, it...
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Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England: From the Commencement ..., Volume 1

Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
..."Pride and Prejudice," he says: " That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is...the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things...
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James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...kick in his gallop." 2 That young lady (Miss Austen) had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. 3 See, in the Life of Wilberforce, how beautifully the Solicitor General and Romilly contrasted the...
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the ..., Volume 4, Issue 1

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1844 - 434 pages
...says Sir Walter, in another passage of his Diary, " had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with." The truth of her dialogue, the thorough preservation of character in every action, in every speech, it...
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the ..., Volume 4, Issue 1

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1844 - 432 pages
...says Sir Walter, in another passage of his Diary, " had a talent for describmg the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with." The truth of her dialogue, the thorough preservation of character in every action, in every speech, it...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 19

Commerce - 1848 - 696 pages
...Prejudice" for the third time : — " That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is...the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace...
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 19

Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1848 - 726 pages
...Prejudice ** for the third time : — " That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is...the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace...
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