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Particularly neat in her dress and in all her ways, she had everything belonging to her arranged in the most perfect order habits of order early impressed upon her mind by Mrs. Honora Edgeworth, which, with her methodical way of doing business, enabled her to get through a surprising amount of multifarious work in the course of every day.
He is a very domestic man, and, save his party violence and folly, very amiable and sensible. Mr. Mr. Ticknor describes his visit at great length in his journals, and the first appearance of Miss Edgeworth: *
Even Miss Edgeworth in Belinda shows the disadvantage of this: and she was a lady of genius, while Bage had only talent and was not quite a gentleman.
The sitting in that red drawing-room and missing everything I had so loved the saloon, the lawn I really could not speak, and heartily glad I was when I got away. GOD'S will be done. We expect my nieces, Anna and Mary, at Edgeworthstown as soon as they return from Italy. To MISS HONORA EDGEWORTH. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, July 17, 1824.
The nineteenth century opened with Castle Rackrent and the admirably original tales of Maria Edgeworth. Jane Austen followed in the same field. And since Waverley appeared, in 1814, we have had a succession of fine romances in unbroken line. Fenimore Cooper's work is nearly contemporary with the best of Scott's. At Sir Walter's death Bulwer-Lytton was in full career.
If my mind had been upon the priest, I should have wondered what he came for. He did not press his message. "The court is again in exile?" I said, when we could ride abreast. "At Ghent." "Bellenger visited me last September. He was without a dauphin." "We could supply the deficiency," Abbé Edgeworth pleasantly replied. "With the boy he left in Europe?" "Oh, dear no. With royal dukes.
'We remained there for several days, making excursions to Loch Oel, etc. Mr. Lovell Edgeworth had his classical mansion filled every evening with a succession of distinguished friends. So Scott came to visit his little friend, and the giant was cheered and made welcome by her charming hospitality. It was a last gleam of sunshine in that noble life.
Letters from London to Miss Ruxton, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Mrs. Edgeworth, Mrs. R. Butler. Death of Mrs. Ruxton Visit to London: Lord Lansdowne, Joanna Baillie, Sir Henry Holland, Southey Talleyrand Duchess of Wellington, Sir James Macintosh Death of Mr.
He was much pleased at Lovell and Sneyd's coming down for this day. Mr. Edgeworth died on the 13th of June, in his seventy-second year. He had been by his different wives the father of twenty-two children, of whom thirteen survived him.
The being in the midst of books he has been accustomed to read, and which contain his marks and notes, will still give him a sort of existence with me. Unintelligible as such fond chimeras may appear to many people, I am persuaded they are not so to you. Maria Edgeworth adds: 'Generous people understand each other.
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