 | Samuel Richardson, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1804 - 414 sider
...give them a " little book (which, they said, they were " often asked after) of familiar letters on " the useful concerns in common life ; " and, at last,...until •* I found the books well received by the _" public. " While I was writing the two volumes, " my worthy-hearted wife, and the young " lady who... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 sider
...parade of romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion...virtue. I therefore gave way to enlargement ; and so PaT mcla became as you see her. But so little did I hope, for the approbation of judges, that I had... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 530 sider
...parade of romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion...the two volumes to your ladies, until I found the book well received by the public. " While I was writing the two volumes, my worthy-hearted wife, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 sider
...parade of romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion...the two volumes to your ladies, until I found the book well received by the public. " While I was writing the two volumes, my worthy-hearted wife, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 sider
...parade of romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion...virtue. I therefore gave way to enlargement ; and so Pat mela became as you see her. But so little did I hope for the approbation of judges, that I had... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 sider
...parade of romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion...little did I hope for the approbation of judges, that 1 had not the courage to send the two volumes to your ladies, until I found the books well received... | |
 | 1869 - 862 sider
...of any special merit in his work, that " I had not the courage," he tells his friend Aaron Hill, " to send the two volumes to your ladies, until I found the books well received by the public." " I had no leisure," he adds, to another corres•pondent, " nor knew I that I had so much invention,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 sider
...parade of romance writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion...therefore gave way to enlargement ; and so Pamela bdcame as you see her. But so little did I hope for the approbation of judges, that I had not the courage... | |
 | 1869 - 824 sider
...of any special merit in his work, that " I had not the courage," he tells his friend Aaron Hill, " to send the two volumes to your ladies, until I found the books well received by the public." "I had no leisure," he adds, to another correspondent, " nor knew I that I had so much invention, till... | |
 | 1869 - 796 sider
...of any special merit in his work, that " I had not the courage," he tells his friend Aaron Hill, " to send the two volumes to your ladies, until I found the books well received by the public." " I had no leisure," he adds, to another correspondent, " nor knew I that I had so much invention,... | |
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... easy and natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the... 
