 It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; " or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions...  Sense and Sensibility - Page xvby Jane Austen - 1922 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - England - 1818 - 338 pages
...indifference, or momentary shame.-1-*" It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough rough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 pages
...indifference, or momentdry shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now3 had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...indifference, or momentary shame. ". It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...indifference or momentary shame. " It is only ' Cecilia,' or ' Camilla,' or ' Belinda ;' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...novelist exercised the function of displaying the greatest powers of the mind, and that novels are works in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. In other words. T found that new, hitherto... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - 578 pages
...lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is perhaps only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its vanities, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...indifference or momentary shame. It is only ' Cecilia/ or ' Camilla/ or ' Belinda/ or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.* Now had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of ' The Spectator '... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1881 - 530 pages
...and Lady L.] JANE AUSTEN : " It is only ' Cecilia,' or Camilla,' or ' Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of it's varieties, the liveliest... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 450 pages
...indifference, or momentary shame. ' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 632 pages
...indifference, or momentary shame. ' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; ' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind...which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, tne happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed... | |
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