... To those who attended the lectures, the book will be a pleasant reminiscence, to others an exciting novelty. The style — clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes... Ambrose the sculptor - Page 285by mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854Full view - About this book
| William Swainson - Auckland (N.Z.) - 1853 - 204 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk they were, and how these... | |
| Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Juvenile delinquency - 1853 - 474 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk they were, and how these... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator, " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of taljc they were, and how these... | |
| Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Juvenile delinquency - 1853 - 474 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk they were, and how these... | |
| Joseph-Marie Callery, Melchior Yvan - China - 1853 - 372 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...voice, manner, and look of the lecturer."— Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk they were, and how these... | |
| Thomas Doubleday - Food - 1853 - 458 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness; the morality tempered, but never weakened,...wise, practical reflection; all these lose much less thau we could have expected from the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator.... | |
| Dinah Maria Craik - 1853 - 376 pages
...or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness j the morality tempered but never weakened by experience...and sympathy; the felicitous phrases, the striking anecdote.'i, the passages of wise, practical reflection; all these lose much less than we could have... | |
| Sydney Dobell - Poetry - 1854 - 314 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk they were, and how these... | |
| Henry Fothergill Chorley - Music - 1854 - 408 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer.'' — Spectator. " This is to us by far the most acceptable of Mr. Thackeray's writings. His graphic style, his philosophical... | |
| John Kesson - China - 1854 - 336 pages
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk the}' were, and how these... | |
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