The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, Том 4Hauer and Company, 1842 |
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... Miss Fanny Burney - her talents - her taste - her sagacity- her wit her manners - her temper - her delicacy - even her beauty - and , above all , her modesty ! We really have never met anything more curious , nor 2 ENGLISH REVIEW .
... Miss Fanny Burney - her talents - her taste - her sagacity- her wit her manners - her temper - her delicacy - even her beauty - and , above all , her modesty ! We really have never met anything more curious , nor 2 ENGLISH REVIEW .
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... Miss Bur- ney . There can be , of course , no autobiography without egotism ; and though the best works of this class are those in which self is the most successfully disguised , it must al- ways be the main ingredient . We therefore ...
... Miss Bur- ney . There can be , of course , no autobiography without egotism ; and though the best works of this class are those in which self is the most successfully disguised , it must al- ways be the main ingredient . We therefore ...
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... Miss Carter , and Han- nah More . We do not deny the existence of the ' medio- crity ' and vulgarity ' attributed to those eminent persons by Miss Burney ; they stare us out of countenance in every page : but we very much wonder that ...
... Miss Carter , and Han- nah More . We do not deny the existence of the ' medio- crity ' and vulgarity ' attributed to those eminent persons by Miss Burney ; they stare us out of countenance in every page : but we very much wonder that ...
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... Miss Burney had had more of Boswell's happy knack , it would not have much mended the matter , for her sole and exclusive object was - not to relate what Burke , or Johnson , or anybody else should say on ge- neral subjects , but what ...
... Miss Burney had had more of Boswell's happy knack , it would not have much mended the matter , for her sole and exclusive object was - not to relate what Burke , or Johnson , or anybody else should say on ge- neral subjects , but what ...
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... Miss More , and I believe that makes her afraid . llan- ' Dr. J. - Well , and if she was to serve me as Miss More did , I should say the same thing to her . But I think she will not . nah More has very good intellects , too ; but she ...
... Miss More , and I believe that makes her afraid . llan- ' Dr. J. - Well , and if she was to serve me as Miss More did , I should say the same thing to her . But I think she will not . nah More has very good intellects , too ; but she ...
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