 This is a hook to be in the cherished corner of a pleasant room, and to be taken up when the spirits have need of sunshine.  Mirabeau: Trialby John Stores Smith - 1848Full view - About this book
 | George Payne Rainsford James - Convicts - 1847 - 376 pages
...writings."—Douglas JerroltTs Newspaper. " Full of variety, beaulfc and cheerfulness. It is a book to lie in the cherished corner of a pleasant room, and to...taken up when the spirits have need of sunshine."— Examiner. " Mr. Leigh Hunt never writes otherwise than cheerfully. He will have sunshine— will promote... | |
 | F- B- (hon.) - 1847 - 376 pages
...writings." — Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper. " Full of variety, beauty, and cheerfulness. It is a book to lie in the cherished corner of a pleasant room, and to...taken up when the spirits have need of sunshine." — Examiner. "Mr. Leigh Hunt never writes otherwise than cheerfully. He will have sunshine — will... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...the last quarter of a century ; and is full of variety, beauty, and cheerfulness. It is a book to lie in the cherished corner of a pleasant room, and to be taken up when the spirits have need uf sunshine. It ranges through every subject indicated in its comprehensive title — women of beauty... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...LEIGH HUNT. In 2 vols. post 8vo. with a Portrait of the Author by Severn, price One Guinea, cloth. " This is a hook to be in the cherished corner of a...writes otherwise than cheerfully. He will have sunshine — will promote gay spirits — will uphold liberal truths ; blithely, yet earnestly. He is the Prince... | |
 | James Grant - 1848 - 356 pages
...us have durable characteristics. They are full of variety, beauty, and cheerfulness. This is a book to be in the cherished corner of a pleasant room and...otherwise than cheerfully. He will have sunshine— will promote gay spirits—will uphold liberal truths; blithely, yet earnestly. He is the Prince of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 268 pages
...us have durable characteristics. They are full of variety, beauty, and cheerfulness. This is a book to be in the cherished corner of a pleasant room and...writes otherwise than cheerfully. He will have sunshine — will promote gay spirits — will uphold liberal truths; blithely, yet earnestly. He is the Prince... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...WRITINGS. BY LEIGH HUNT. In 2 vols. post 8vo. with a Portrait of the Author by Severn. '• This is a book to be in the cherished corner of a pleasant room,...Leigh Hunt never writes otherwise than cheerfully. He wilt have Mmshine, will promote gay spirits, will uphold liberal truths; blithely, yet earnestly. He... | |
 | Thomas Southey - Great Britain - 1848 - 388 pages
...blithely yet earnestly."—Alhenteum. " Full of variety, beauty, and cheerfulness. It is a book to lie in the cherished corner of a pleasant room, and to...(and this is a great compliment) is ' The Indicator.' For, though its papers are longer, they have the same cordial mixture of fact and imagination."—Examiner.... | |
 | Leonard Wray - Rum - 1848 - 524 pages
...us have durable characteristies. They arc full of variety, beauty, and cheerfulness. This is a book to be in the cherished corner of a pleasant room and...sunshine. The book which the present most resembles in Mr. Hum's former writings (and this is a great compliment) is the " Indicator." Its papers have the same... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1848 - 266 pages
...blithely, yet earnestly. He is the prince of parlour-window writers." — Atherunan. " This is a book to be in the cherished corner of a pleasant room,...taken up when the spirits have need of sunshine." III. IMAGINATION AND FANCY; or, Selections from the English Poets. IV. WIT AND HUMOUR : Selected from... | |
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