 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 608 pages
...most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity, and dulness — of torpor, animated only by envy — of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...Oswald, and even of poor Corinne, on their second journeys ! and how, by a few reflections in the last journey to Italy, does this singular woman reduce... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 552 pages
...of most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity and dulness ; of torpor, animated only by envy ; of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...Oswald, and even of poor Corinne, on their second journeys ! and how, by a few reflections in the last journey to Italy, does this singular woman reduce... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1138 pages
...most cold observer.«. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity, and dulness — of torpor, animated only by envy — of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...without even being comprehended — and of intellect, gradunlly extinguished by tlic azotic atmosphere of stupidity — is so true ! The unjust estimate... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - British - 1836 - 526 pages
...of most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity and dulness ; of torpor, animated only by envy ; of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...Oswald, and even of poor Corinne, on their second journeys ! and how, by a few reflections in the last journey to Italy, does this singular woman reduce... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 518 pages
...of most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity and dulness ; of torpor, animated only by envy ; of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...the azotic atmosphere of stupidity is so true! The unjnst estimate of England, which this Northumbrian picture might have occasioned, how admirably is... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Mackintosh, James - 1853 - 528 pages
...of most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity, and dulness; of torpor, animated only by envy ; of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...Oswald, and even of poor Corinne, on their second journeys ! and how, by a few reflections in the last journey to Italy, does this singular woman reduce... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1881 - 410 pages
...of most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity, and dulness ; of torpor animated only by envy ; of mental superiority dreaded and hated...have occasioned, how admirably is it corrected by the observations of Oswald, and even of poor Corinne, on their second journey — and how, by a few reflections... | |
 | 1835 - 626 pages
...most cold observers. Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity, and dulness — of torpor, animated only by envy — of mental superiority, dreaded and hated...Oswald, and even of poor Corinne, on their second journeys ! and how, by a few reflections in the last journey to Italy, does this singular woman reduce... | |
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Her picture of stagnation, mediocrity, and dulness — of torpor, animated only by envy — of mental superiority, dreaded and hated without even being comprehended — and of intellect, gradually extinguished by the azotic atmosphere of stupidity —... 