...spoke of cheerfulness, sincerity, and benevolence ; her complexion was of the finest texture . . . her voice was sweet ; she delivered herself with fluency...excelling in conversation as much as in composition. These descriptions are borne out by the best-known portrait, thut prefixed to the Memoir, which was...

...spoke of cheerfulness, sincerity, and benevolence ; her complexion was of the finest texture . . . her voice was sweet ; she delivered herself with fluency...excelling in conversation as much as in composition. These descriptions are borne out by the best-known portrait, that prefixed to the Memoir, which was...

...age, it is ha/.«rdons to mention aeeoinplishmelits. Our authoress would probably ha\e been interior to few in such acquirements, had she not been so superior to most in higher things. She had not only ¡in excellent taste for drawing, but, in her earlier days, evinced «real power of...

...real characteristics . . . her eloquent blood spoke through her modest cheek. Her voice was extremely sweet. She delivered herself with fluency and precision....excelling in conversation as much as in composition . . . She was fond of dancing, and excelled in it ... her temper was as polished as her wit . . .30...

...To his description of his sister's physical appearance, Henry Austen added: "Her voice was extremely sweet. She delivered herself with fluency and precision....rational society, excelling in conversation as much as in composition."29 Anna Lefroy was less expansive than her Uncle Henry. In a letter addressed to her half...

...with truth be said, that her eloquent blood spoke through her modest cheek. Her voice was extremely sweet. She delivered herself with fluency and precision....she not been so superior to most in higher things. She had not only an excellent taste for drawing, but, in her earlier days, evinced great power of hand...

...with truth be said, that her eloquent blood spoke through her modest cheek. Her voice was extremely sweet. She delivered herself with fluency and precision....she not been so superior to most in higher things. She had not only an excellent taste for drawing, but, in her earlier days, evinced great power of hand...

...said, that her eloquent blood spoke through her modest cheek. Her voice was extremely sweet. She 80 delivered herself with fluency and precision. Indeed...rational society, excelling in conversation as much as in composition.4 Anna noticed the depth of her nature: Her unusually quick sense of the ridiculous inclined...

..."with truth be said, that her eloquent blood spoke through her modest cheek. Her voice "was extremely sweet. She delivered herself with fluency and precision....probably, have been inferior to few in such acquirements, 'When Winchester races first took their beginning', a poem about disgruntled St Swithun, who vows to...

...her works that she was personally attractive, and we are told in the memoir that this was the case, 'her stature rather exceeded the middle height; her...excelling in conversation as much as in composition.' We may picture her as something like her own sprightly, natural, but by no means perfect Elizabeth...