 ... sublime and its love for the beautiful in those famous regions consecrated to everlasting immortality in the annals of the prophets, and which no other writer has ever depicted with a pencil at once so reverent and so picturesque."— Sun. " In the...  Memoirs of royal ladies - Page 320by Emily Sarah Holt - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Eliot Warburton - Egypt - 1845 - 396 pages
...variety : in the mixture of story with anecdote, information and impression, it perhaps suipasses it. Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes. From the MORNING POST. This delightful work is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Eastern... | |
 | Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope - British - 1845 - 394 pages
...variety : in the mixture of story with anecdote, information and impression, it perhaps suipasses it. Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes. From the MORNING POST. This delightful work is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Eastern... | |
 | 1845 - 720 pages
...colouring, power, and play of fancy with which its descriptions are enlivened."— Quarterly Review. " Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour, are to be found in these volumes.'* Spectator. VII. DIARY AND MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA, CONSORT OF GEORGE I. Including... | |
 | James Phillips Fletcher - Assyria - 1850 - 402 pages
...variety : in the mixture of story with anecdote, information and impression, it perhaps surpasses it. Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes. From the MORNING POST. This delightful work is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Eastern... | |
 | Mrs. Matthew Hall - Great Britain - 1854 - 420 pages
...reverent and so picturesque. From the SPECTATOR. In the mixture of story with anecdote, information and impression, it perhaps surpasses " Eothen." Innumerable...vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes. From the MORNING POST. This delightful work is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Eastern... | |
 | Mrs. Matthew Hall - Great Britain - 1854 - 468 pages
...In the mixture of story with anecdote, inlormation and impression, it perhaps surpasses " Euthen." Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes. From the MORNING POST. This delightful work is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Eastern... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1855 - 396 pages
...reverent and so picturesque." FROM THE "SPECTATOR." " In the mixture of story with anecdote, information, and impression, it perhaps surpasses ' Eothen.' Innumerable...vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes," FROM THE "GLOBE." " Mr. Warburton has fulfilled the promise of his title-page. The * Realities' of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Kensington (London, England) - 1855 - 334 pages
..."SPECTATOR." "In the mixture of story with anecdote, information, and impression, it perhaps surpassea * Eothen/ Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found iu the volumes." FROM THE "GLOBE." " Mr. "Warbtirton has fulfilled the promise of his title-page. The... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1857 - 356 pages
...pencil at once so reverent and picturesque."—Sun. "In the mixture of story with anecdote, information and Impression, it perhaps surpasses 'Eothen.' Innumerable...passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in this volume."— Spectator. TRAVELS IN PERSIA, GEORGIA, AND KOORDISTAN, WITH SKETCHES OF THE COSSACKS... | |
 | True - 1857 - 352 pages
...at once so reverent and picturesque.'' — Sun. "In the mixture of story with anecdote, information and Impression, it perhaps surpasses 'Eothen.' Innumerable...passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in this volume." — Spectator, TRAVELS IN PERSIA, GEORGIA, AND KOOKDISTAN, WITH SKETCHES OF THE COSSACKS... | |
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