 | 1839 - 722 páginas
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scotish people, they breathe a spirit, at... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1843 - 368 páginas
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...in her own country, derive their success from the manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 346 páginas
...she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her writings," they add, " deservedly popular in her own country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 páginas
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...writer herself practised in such an eminent degree." Some idea of the domestic toils and trials of Mrs. Grant may be gathered from the fact that she had... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 946 páginas
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...in her own country, derive their success from the manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 728 páginas
...productions are thus characterized by Sir Walter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them : — " I !cr literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 372 páginas
...productions are thus characterized by Sir Walter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them: — " Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...simplicity and force; and uniformly bear the stamp of n virtuous and courageous mind, recommending to the reader that patience and fortitude which the writer... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1870 - 650 páginas
...productions are thus characterized by Sir W alter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them: — "Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 páginas
...American Lady (Mrs. Schuyler); Letters from the Mountains (being her correspondence with her friends). "Her writings, deservedly popular in her own country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addre4sing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 páginas
...Her productions are thus characterized by Sir Walter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them:--" Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...bear the stamp of a virtuous and courageous mind, reeoniiiK'mHim to the reader that patience and fortitude which the writer herself practised in such... | |
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Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune and privation, are written at once with simplicity and force ; and uniformly bear the stamp of a virtuous and courageous mind, recommending to the reader that patience and fortitude which the writer... 
