 | Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 368 pàgines
...the literature and judgment of nations, of whofe language I am ignorant. Yet I know that the claffics have much to teach, and I believe that the Orientals have much to learn : the temperate dignity of ftyle, the graceful proportion of art, the forms of vifible and intelle&ual beauty, the juft delineation... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pàgines
...the literature and judgment of nations, of whose language I am ignorant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe that the Orientals have much to learu: the temperate dignity of style, the graceful proportions of art, the forms of visible and intellectual... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pàgines
...combined investigation, " the temperate dignity of style, the graceful proportions of art, the form* of visible and intellectual beauty, the just delineation...argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry." (Gibbon, x. ol.) I. The language of Greece is confessedly die most polished, exquisite, and powerful... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 406 pàgines
...literature and judgments of nations, of whose lang-uage I am ignorant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe that the orientals...argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry .b The influence of truth and rea-t son is of a less ambiguous complexion. The philosophers of Athens... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pàgines
...the literature aud judgment of nations, of whose language I am ignorant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe, that the Orientals...character and passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argu-> nient, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry71. The influence of truth and reason is... | |
 | Edward Dodwell - 1819 - 630 pàgines
...exertions were marked with a liberal and enthusiastic spirit peculiar to themselves: " they excelled in the temperate dignity of style, the graceful proportions...argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry, in moral and political writings." 3 But while we admire their noble deeds and transcendant qualities,... | |
 | Edward Dodwell - 1819 - 620 pàgines
...exertions were marked with a liberal and enthusiastic spirit peculiar to themselves : " they excelled in the temperate dignity of style, the graceful proportions...argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry, in moral and political writings."3 But while we admire their noble deeds and transcendant qualities,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 pàgines
...tumour, oratory, simple, dignified, and argumentative, a spirit of bold and well combined investigation, "the temperate dignity of style, the graceful proportions...argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry." (Gibbon, x. 51.) I. The language of Greece is confessedly the most polished, exquisite, and powerful... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 pàgines
...the literature and judgment of nations, of whose language I am ignoVant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe that the orientals...art, the forms of visible and intellectual beauty, me just delineation of character and passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 390 pàgines
...the literature and judgment of nations, of whose language I am ignorant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe that the Orientals...learn : the temperate dignity of style, the graceful propor[70) Abulpbaragius (Dynast, p. 26. 148.) mentions a Syriac version of Homer's two poems, by Theophiliis,... | |
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Latin schools may have fixed in our minds a standard of exclusive taste ; and I am not forward to condemn the literature and judgment of nations, of whose language I am ignorant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe that the... 
