 The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious hope that I might one day tread in his footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often...  Practical Education - Pàgina 342per Maria Edgeworth - 1801Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pàgines
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. The design of my first work the Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement of... | |
 | 1809 - 592 pàgines
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." DR. JOHNSON, a high and commanding authority, objects to the Gallicisms, which, he avers, sometimes... | |
 | 1809 - 594 pàgines
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." DR. JOHNSON, a high and commanding authority, objects to the Gallicisms, which, he avers, sometimes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pàgines
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. The design of my first work, the Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 510 pàgines
...rival Hume, often forced me to close " the volume with a mixed sensation of de" light and despair. 5 ' From this testimony we may judge, that a simple style...to be more difficult to attain, and more desirable, than that highly ornamented diction to which writers of inferior taste aspire. Gibbon tells us with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pàgines
...footsteps ; the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. The design of my first work, the Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement of... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pàgines
...footsteps ; the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. The design of my first work, the Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement of... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pàgines
...footsteps. The calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Upon this passage in the Memoirs of Gibbon the reviewer makes the following observation : — " The... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pàgines
...footsteps. The calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Upon this passage in the Memoirs of Gibbon the reviewer makes the following observation : — " The... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pàgines
...footsteps. The calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Upon this passage in the Memoirs of Gibbon the reviewer makes the following observation : — " The... | |
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