 | 1824 - 984 pages
...Irving lately published, and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to their success. The first ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings...were to be met with in all places of public resort ; while the " Orations" get on but slowly, on Milton's stilts, and are pompously announced as in a... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...Irving lately published, and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to their success. The first ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings...were to be met with in all places of public resort ; while the " Orations" get on but slowly, on Milton's stilts, and are pompously announced as in a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...published, and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to their success. The first ran likeVild-lire through the country, were the darlings of watering-places,...were to be met with in all places of public resort ; while the " Orations" get on but slowly, on Milton's stilts, and are pompously announced as in a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 424 pages
...Irving lately published, and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to their success. The first ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings...were to be met with in all places of public resort ; while the " Orations" get on but slowly, on Milton's stilts, and > are pompously announced as in... | |
 | 1850 - 896 pages
...Hazlitt, and kept him for a whole forenoon spell-bound beneath its power. " These sermons," he says, " ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings...inn at Burford Bridge, near Boxhill, and passing a whole and very delightful morning in reading it without quitting the shade of an apple tree." The attractive... | |
 | William Hanna - 1850 - 576 pages
...Hazlitt, and kept him for a whole forenoon spell-bound beneath its power. " These sermons," he says, " ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings...inn at Burford Bridge, near Boxhill, and passing a whole and very delightful morning in reading it without quitting the shade of an apple tree." The attractive... | |
 | 1850 - 818 pages
...inclined to speak too favourably of such compositions, "ran like wildfire th rough the country . . . and were to be met with in all places of public resort...in the orchard of the inn at Burford Bridge, near Box Hill, and passing a whole and a very deligutful morning in reading it without quitting the shade... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...never inclined to speak too favourably of euch compositions, "ran likcwildfirethrough the country . . . and were to be met with in all places of public resort...remember finding the volume in the orchard of the inn at Hurford Bridge, near l?ox Hill, and passing л whole and ¡i very delightful morning in reading it... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...who told him he was " entirely converted to admiration of Chalmers." Hazlitt says : " These •ermona ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings of wateringplaces, were laid in the windows of li; n -, and were to be met with in all places of public resort." The sale of the book ran almost equal... | |
 | William Hanna - 1853 - 448 pages
...Hazlitt, and kept him for a whole forenoon spell-bound beneath its power. ' These sermons," he says, ' ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings...inn at Burford Bridge, near Boxhill, and passing a whole, and very delightful morning in reading it without quitting the shade of an apple-tree." The... | |
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God" which Mr. Irving lately published, and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to their success. The first ran like wild-fire through the country, were the darlings of watering-places, were laid in the windows of inns,* and were to be met with... 
