 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 sivua
...the naked perfect truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...affectation of rhetoric and science, betrays in every page th* vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 sivua
...truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet, instead of the simplicity of stile and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate...betrays, in every page, the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 sivua
...naked per"^ ^*~ feet truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of he.r parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1820 - 892 sivua
...historian is lost in the daughter; and instead of simplicity of styta style and narrative, as Gibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The best edition of Anna Commcna, is that of Paris, fbllo, 1651. ANN^UB, a Roman family which was subdivided... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1822 - 840 sivua
...historian is lost in the daughter: and instead of simplicity of style and narrative, as Gibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The best edition of Anna Commena, is that of Paris, folio, 1651. АУХЛ;| s. a Roman family which... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1822 - 818 sivua
...historian is lost in the daughter: and instead of simplicity of style and narrative, as Qibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity uf a female author. The best edition of Anna Commena, is that of Paris, folio, 1661. AKN.EUS, a Roman... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 sivua
...the naked perfect truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet, instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of the author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 460 sivua
...that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual strain... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 484 sivua
...that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual strain... | |
 | 1833 - 448 sivua
...that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues .; and the perpetual strain... | |
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Yet, instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues;... 
