 | James Phillips Fletcher - 1850 - 344 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...the spirit of romantic adventure." — Morning Post, its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely to the history of... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 416 pages
...almost every civilised country m Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...singular exactness of judgment. The memoirs are richly fraugnt with the spirit of romantic adventure."— Morning Post. " This work is a worthy companion... | |
 | George Alexander Hoskins - Spain - 1851 - 406 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...romantic adventure." — Morning Post. " This work is a wortby companion to Miss Strickland's admirable ' Queens of England.' In one respect the subject-matter... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - United States - 1851 - 408 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...richly fraught with the spirit of romantic adventure." — Horning Post. " This work is a worthy companion to Miss Strickland's admirable ' Queens of England.'... | |
 | Edmund Spencer (capt.) - 1851 - 496 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...richly fraught with the spirit of romantic adventure." — Horning Pott. "This work is a worthy companion to Miss Strickland's admirable 'Queens of England.'... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...observation, and singular exactness of judgment. The memoirs an richly fraught with the spirit of romantic adventure." — Morning Pott. " This work is a worthy... | |
 | Arctic regions - 1852 - 414 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...of the ' Queens of England.' That celebrated work, althcngh its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely to the history... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - American wit and humor - 1852 - 360 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...subject-matter of these volumes is more interesting, becanse it is more diversified than that of the ' Queens of England.' That celebrated work, althcugh... | |
 | Lord Robert Montagu - Naval architecture - 1852 - 240 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...companion to Miss Strickland's admirable ' Queens oi England.' In one respect the subject-matter of these volumes is more interesting, because it is... | |
 | George Thomas Landmann - 1852 - 390 pages
...every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of...Morning Post. " This work is a worthy companion to Hiss Strickland's admirable. ' Queens of England.' In one respect the subject-matter of these volumes... | |
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In one respect the subject-matter of these volumes is more interesting, because it is more diversified than that of the ' Queens of England.' That celebrated work, althcngh its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely... 
