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" That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders... "
The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - Page 465
by National cyclopaedia - 1879
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Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, Volume 1

Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is, to me, the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 8

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description...
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Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England: From the Commencement ..., Volume 1

Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1843 - 368 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 19

1848 - 706 pages
...met with. The big bow-irow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early." 20. — Glimpses of...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 19

1848 - 700 pages
...characters of ordinary life, which is to me the moat wonderful I ever met with. The b:_: l>oic-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description...
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 19

Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1848 - 726 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 19

1848 - 696 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bowwow strain I can do myself, like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description...
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Duties of Young Women

Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1850 - 232 pages
...and characters of ordinary life, wliich is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself, like any now going ; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary, common-place things and characters inU'resting, Irom the truth of the description...
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