 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pàgines
...natural even tliau Swift; and bis style, though inferior in directness and energy, is more copious. He de. Next Anger rushed, his oyes on He had both read and seen much, and treasured up an. amount, of knowledge and observation certainly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pàgines
...popular mind, has seldom been equalled. Of great originality, and of strong and clear conceptions, which he was able to embody in language equally perspicuous and forcible, he has the power of "forging the handwriting of nature,'' and of giving to fiction all the appearance... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...popular mind, has seldom been equalled. Of great originality, and of strong and clear conceptions, which he was able to embody in language equally perspicuous and forcible, he has the power nf " forging the handwriting of nature," and of giving to fiction all the appearance... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pàgines
...popular mind, has seldom been equalled. Of great originality, and of strong and clear conceptions, which he was able to embody in language equally perspicuous and forcible, he has the power of "forging the handwriting of nature," and of giving to fiction all the appearance... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pàgines
...popular mind, has seldom been equalled. Of great originality, and of strong and clear conceptions, which he was able to embody in language equally perspicuous and forcible, he has the povrerof "forging the handwriting of nature," and of giving to fiction all the appearance... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pàgines
...popular mind, has seldom been equalled. Of great originality, and of strong and clear conceptiims, which he was able to embody in language equally perspicuous and forcible, he has the power of "forging the handwriting of nature," and of giving to fiction all the appearance... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pàgines
...natural than Swift, and his style, though inferior in directness and energy, is more copious. He is strictly an original writer, with strong, clear conceptions...embody in language equally perspicuous and forcible." — Robert Chambers, Cychpadia of English Literature, i. 618. •' His writing is always full of idiomatic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pàgines
...natural even than Swift ; and his style, though inferior in directness and energy, is more copious. He was strictly an original writer, with strong clear...mind, which he was able to embody in language equally perspicnous and forcible. He had both read and seen much, and treasured up an amount of knowledge and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pàgines
...natural even than Swill; and his style, though inferior in directness and energy, is more copious. He was strictly an, original writer, with strong clear...rising up in his mind, which he was able to embody ilt language equally perspicuous and forcible. He hud both read and seen much, and treasured up an... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 612 pàgines
...natural even than Swift ; and his style, though inferior in directness and energy, is more copious. He was strictly an original writer, with strong, clear...in language equally perspicuous and forcible."-— Chambers. His realistic power was so great that he was accused of forging the handwriting of Nature.... | |
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The imposition was a bold one — perhaps the least defensible of all his inventions. Defoe is more natural even than Swift ; and his style, though inferior in directness and energy, is more copious. He was strictly an original writer, with strong, clear... 
