 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pàgines
...speaks." Gibbon (Misc. Works, i. 122) says of Hume's writings : — ' Their careless inimitable beauties often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.1 Dr. Beattie (Life, p. 243) wrote on Jan. 5, 1778:— 'We who live in Scotland are obliged... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 486 pàgines
...death, records how in ' the repeated perusals ' of his History, ' the careless inimitable beauties often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.' Hume sought the aid of writers far inferior to himself in general powers in his eagerness to refine... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pàgines
...to read them ; nor will I disguise my different feelings in the repeated FIRST ESSAr. 167 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 litterature, was suggested by a refinement of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 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 litterature, was suggested by a refinement of... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 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 - 1900 - 398 pàgines
...nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious hope that 1 might one day tread in his footsteps : the calm philosophy,...close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.2 The design of my first work, the Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 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." EDWARD GIBBON in his Memoir of My Life and Writings, gives us a better insight into his own character... | |
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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... 
