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It is curious to note the difference in tone which there is between the children's books written by him and Maria and those of the second half of the nineteenth century. Our duty to our neighbour is the Edgeworth watchword, while our duty to God is the watchword of Miss Yonge and her school of writers.
My father intends to present his lock, with a paper giving some account of it, by way of introduction to the society of which he is a member, La Societe pour encourager les arts et metiers. I suppose you see in the newspapers that the ancient Academy is again established under the name of the Institute? MRS. EDGEWORTH to MRS. MARY SNEYD. PARIS, Feb. 22, 1803.
I've already told you I'm about to take a long journey, and it's more than probable I shall never return." "Don't say so," cried Mrs. Maggot. "I should be perfectly miserable if I thought you in earnest." "The very idea is dreadful," whimpered Edgeworth Bess. "Farewell!" cried Jack, embracing them. "Take this key to Baptist Kettleby.
It is well written, but over-laboured too much attempt to put the reader exactly up to the thoughts and sentiments of the parties. The women do this better: Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to anything man, vain man, has produced of the like nature. March 29. Worked in the morning. Had two visits from Colonels Russell and Ferguson.
"Indeed, Nan, he is a most capable and clever fellow. I've not a word to say against him, except that perhaps he is too clever to stay with us much longer. Lord Edgeworth has been advertising for a steward, and I think it more than likely that he will get the post. If he should " "He will! He will!" cried Nan excitedly. "I feel a conviction. He will get it, and you will offer Ned his place.
Then there are Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen. We may even remember that Macaulay thought Jane Austen could be compared with Shakespeare, as, of course, she can be, since any one can be; but neither of these good women has strongly affected the literary current.
At one end of the salon is a picture of M. de Lescure, and at the other, of Henri de la Rochejacquelin, by Gerard and Girardet, presents from the King. Fine military figures. In the boudoir is one of M. de la Rochejacquelin, much the finest of all she has never yet looked at this picture. Far from being disappointed, I was much gratified by this visit. To MISS LUCY EDGEWORTH.
Miss Edgeworth had not a trace of the Celt as I conceive that rather indefinite entity about her; but she was as good an Irish woman as ever walked, and there are hundreds of Irish people of her class and creed looking at Irish life with kindly humorous Irish eyes, seeing pretty much what she saw, enjoying it as she enjoyed it, but with neither her power nor her will to set it down.
Among the most intimate of his friends and associates were Richard Lovell Edgeworth, a gentleman of fortune, enthusiastically devoted to his long-conceived design of moving land-carriages by steam; Captain Keir, an excellent practical chemist, a wit and a man of learning; Dr.
Edgeworth, with their connections produced by marriage, so as to prove the most heterogeneous relationships, I am told there was always the same striking union and agreeable intercourse among them all, to the number of sometimes fifteen or twenty. ...The house, and many of its arrangements the bells, the doors, etc. bear witness to that love of mechanical trifling of which Mr.
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