 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pàgines
...Essays contributed to Lectures at Broadmead Chapel. the ' Eclectic Review.' Edit. by JE Ryland. 2 vols. Essays: On Decision of Character • on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself' on the epithet Romantic; OB the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion. Ignorance, and a Discourse on the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pàgines
...Ryland. > vols. Critical Essays contributed to the ' Eclectic Review.' Edit, by JE Ryland. 2 vols. Essays: On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; on the epithet Romantic; on the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion. Ignorance, and a Discourse on the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 580 pàgines
...to human nature in genera). HENRY FIELDING. OF all the works of imagination, to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are, perhaps, most decidedly and exclusively her own. They are not only altogether beyond the reach of translation, in the proper sense and spirit of... | |
 | 1827 - 396 pàgines
...foul air, previous to workmen descending into them. The Rev. John Foster, the author of the admirable Essays on ' Decision of Character, on a. man's writing memoirs of himself,' &e. has lately published a new work, which is read with avidity. It is on "The Importance of Considering... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 546 pàgines
...to human nature in general. HENRY FIELDING. OF all the works of imagination, to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are, perhaps, most decidedly and exclusively her own. They are not only altogether beyond the reach of translation, in the proper sense and spirit of... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1831 - 326 pàgines
...(pub. at 4/.10s.; cloth bds. 21.8s. 1821 " Of all the works of imagination to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are perhaps most decidedly and exclusively her own. The persons of his story live in England, travel in England, quarrel and fight in England; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 490 pàgines
...Review, May, 1810, p. 340.] HENRY FIELDING. OF all the works of imagination, to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are, perhaps, most decidedly and exclusively her own. They are not only altogether beyond the reach of translation, in the proper sense and spirit of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pàgines
...Review, May, 1810, p. 340.] HENRY FIELDING. OF all the works of imagination, to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are, perhaps, most decidedly and exclusively her own. They are not only altogether beyond the reach of translation, in the proper sense and spirit of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pàgines
...Review, May, 1810, p. 340.] EENRY FIELDING. Or all the works of imagination, to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are, perhaps, most decidedly and exdusively her own. They are not only altogether beyond the reach of translation, in the proper sense... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1841 - 960 pàgines
...earned their immortality. QUARTERLY REVIEW. Of all the works of imagination to which English genius has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are, perhaps, most decidedly and exclusively her own. SCOTT.—Biographical Notice». Johnson read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping. BOSWELL'S... | |
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has given origin, the writings of Henry Fielding are perhaps most decidedly and exclusively her own."—Sir Walter Scott, • " The prose Homer of human nature."—Lord Byron. FOSTER'S ESSAYS ON DECISION OF CHARACTER ; On a Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself;... 
