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Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
Source: OUR VILLAGE
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
Source: Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
“Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.”
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
“I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.”
Source: Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: Edited by Henry Chorley. In 2 volumes. I
“Fashion is a capricious deity.”
Source: Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends
“We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.”
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
“A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.”
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
“Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.”
Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
“Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.”
“Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!”
Source: The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse ...
Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
“There is no running away from a great grief.”
Source: The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the First
“Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.”
Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
“That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.”
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends
“[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.”
“I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.”
Source: Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser
“She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.”
Source: Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner: With Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years
“Friendship is the bread of the heart.”
Source: OUR VILLAGE
“No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.”
Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange