 | Agnes Strickland - Great Britain - 1850 - 450 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James." — Britannia. " The vast utility of the task... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1850 - 256 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James." — Britannia. " The vast utility of the task... | |
 | James Phillips Fletcher - 1850 - 344 pages
...biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Xives of twenty-five Princesses) carry us from the daughters...furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James." — Britannia. " The vast utility of the task... | |
 | Thomas Adolphus Trollope - Europe - 1850 - 440 pages
...biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the laves of twenty-five Princesses) carry us from the daughters...furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James." — Britannia. " The vast utility of the task... | |
 | Barbary - 1850 - 316 pages
...ah- of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty -five Princesses) carry us from the daughters of the Conqueror...furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James." — Britannia. " The vast utility of the task... | |
 | Guglielmo Pepe - 1850 - 362 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...Edward I. — a highly interesting period, replete with carious illustrations of the genius and manners of the Middle Ages. Such works, from the truthfulness... | |
 | James Phillips Fletcher - Assyria - 1850 - 402 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...Conqueror to the family of Edward I. — a highly interestmg period, replete with curious illustrations of the genius and manners of the Middle Ages.... | |
 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1850 - 306 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...daughters of the Conqueror to the family of Edward I.—a highly interesting period, replete with curious illustrations of the genius and manners of the... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1850 - 482 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...daughters of the Conqueror to the family of Edward I.—a highly interesting period, replete with curious illustrations of the genius and manners of the... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 416 pages
...untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The present volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses)...daughters of the Conqueror to the family of Edward I.—a highly interesting period, replete with curious illustrations of the genius and manners of the... | |
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... romance and adventure that is highly pleasing, and renders the work at once an agreeable companion of the boudoir, and a valuable addition to the historical library. Mrs. Green has entered upon an untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air... 
