 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness; the morality tempered but never weakened...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk... | |
 | William Swainson - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk... | |
 | Joseph-Marie Callery, Melchior Yvan - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer."— Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator, " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of taljc... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...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... | |
 | mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...style— clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " What fine things the lectures contain ! What eloquent and subtle sayings,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...style — clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " What fine things the lectures contain ! What eloquent and subtle sayings,... | |
 | Sebastiano Giustiniani - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...style — clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn...the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." — Spectator. " What fine things the lectures contain ! What eloquent and subtle sayings,... | |
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... 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... 
