 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pàgines
...different and of an original structure. Gibbon, in like manner, writing of Hume and Robertson, says: "The perfect composition, the nervous language, the...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." * As to re-actions, I suppose there has been something of the kind against the supremacy of Pope, since... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pàgines
...was not unworthy to read them : nor will I disguise my different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pàgines
...call me Nicholson now, you would call rue very absurdly/ " — BOSWKLL'S Joline;H, edit. 1S47, 100. " llibone — OinВОЯ : Autobiography, in hit Miscell. World. CHARACTER OF ALFRED, KI.NQ OP ENGLAND. The merit... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pàgines
...the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the amtlitious hopo pPab/ — GinBON : A utokio9raphy, in hii Miicell. Workt. CHARACTER OF ALFRED, KING OF ENGLAND. The merit... | |
 | John McClintock - 1880 - 1100 pàgines
...his footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless, inimitable beauties, of his friend and rival Hume often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Robertson is more uniform and measured than Hume. He has few salient 50 ROBINSON points, and no careless... | |
 | 1886 - 218 pàgines
...was not unworthy to read them ; nor will I disguise my different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. " Yet, upon the whole, the ' History of the Decline and Fall' seems to have struck root, both at home... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pàgines
...unworthy to read them : nor will I disguise my different feelings in the repeated perusals. The pcrfn-t composition, the nervous language, the well-turned...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... | |
 | 1909 - 1034 pàgines
...of taste who appreciated Xenophon. " The perfect composition, the nervous language," wrote Gibbon, "the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." He made little progress in London society, and his solitary evenings were passed with his books, but... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 950 pàgines
...taste who appreciated Xenophon. " The perfect composition, the nervous language," wrote Gibbon, "trie well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed me to...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." He made little progress in London society, and his solitary evenings were passed with his books, but... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 796 pàgines
...that I might one day tread in his footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless, inimitable l;eauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." He made little progress in London society, and his solitary evenings were passed with his books, but... | |
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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... 
