 till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find ? An accurate, daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully-fenced, high-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers ; but no glance of a bright,...  The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Página 43por Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1857 - 542 páginas
...An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face ; a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but...hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in tlieir elegant but confined houses. These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run... | |
 | 1857 - 850 páginas
...? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face ; a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but...blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to Uve with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These observations will probably... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 806 páginas
...? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face ; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers, but...physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no«bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant, but confined,... | |
 | 1859 - 826 páginas
...accurate daguerreotyped portrate of a commonplace face ; a carefally - fenced, highly - cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers ; but...physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue bill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her elegant ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 páginas
...new ones. " Is it not so ? And should we try to counteract this influence ? Can we indeed counteract it ? " I am glad that another work of yours will soon...These observations will probably irritate you, but I ahall run the risk. " Now I can understand admiration of George Sand ; for though I never saw any of... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - 396 páginas
...that the latter was unable to understand why the former was admired, and confessed that she herself ' should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses ; ' but each writer equally resisted interference with her own natural style of composition. Miss Bronte,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 426 páginas
...succeed. She complains that, in Pride and Prejudice, we have "a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers ; but...country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck." And what have we in Villette ? The routine of what Mrs. Gaskell calls a "pension" — the schoolrooms... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 páginas
...? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face ; a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers ; but...and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses." This is the judgment which one great authoress passed on another, and that other the same of whom Macaulay... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 396 páginas
...that the latter was unable to understand why the former was admired, and confessed that she herself ' should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses ;' but each writer equally resisted interference with her own natural style of composition. Miss Bronte,... | |
 | 1882 - 896 páginas
...? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face ; a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but...and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses." This is the judgment which one great authoress passed on another, and that other the same of whom Macaulay... | |
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