 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 402 sivua
...spirit, by the greatest masters of human reason, it can neither be exposed by the scoffs of enemiex, nor even endangered by the fury of pretended friends."...and Addison were among the earliest models on which onr celebrated historian laboured to form his taste and style. If the composition of these writers... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 sivua
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the welltuned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...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 - 1837 - 882 sivua
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the welltuned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...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 - 1837 - 1164 sivua
...footsteps : the calm philosophy, tie careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced roe to close 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, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 sivua
...style of Gibbon. — M. 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, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 sivua
...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, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 sivua
...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... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1844 - 380 sivua
...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 difference between these two Scotchmen in their modes of viewing human life, its nature, impulses... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sivua
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-tuned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. CHAP. XIII. MR. GIBBON PUBLISHES HIS FIRST WORK. THE design of my first work, the Essay on the Study... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sivua
...nervous language, the well-tuned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious hope that 1 might one day tread in his footsteps : the calm philosophy,...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. CHAP. XIII. MR. GIBBON PUBLISHES HIS FIRST WORK. THE design of my first work, the Essay on the Study... | |
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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... 
