"From what I have quoted, a _general_ conception of the prose style
of the authoress may be gathered. Her manner, however, is infinitely
varied. It is always forcible--but I am not sure that it is always
anything else, unless I say picturesque. It rather indicates than
evinces scholarship. Perhaps only the scholastic, or, more properly,
those accustomed to look narrowly at the structure of phrases, would
be willing to acquit her of ignorance of grammar--would be willing
to attribute her slovenliness to disregard of the shell in anxiety
for the kernel; or to waywardness, or to affectation, or to blind
reverence to Carlyle--would be able to detect, in her strange and
continual inaccuracies, a capacity for the accurate.

"'I cannot sympathize with such an apprehension; the spectacle
is _capable to_ swallow _up_ all such objects."

"It is fearful, too, to know, as you look, that whatever has
been swallowed by the cataract, is _like_ to rise suddenly to
light."

"I took our _mutual_ friends to see her."

"It was always obvious that they had nothing in common
_between them_."

"The Indian cannot be looked at truly _except_ by a poetic
eye."

"McKenny's Tour to the Lakes gives some facts not to be met
_with_ elsewhere."