 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...  Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & Futurepor Sir George Gilbert Scott - 1857 - 285 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1801 - 366 páginas
...in writing ; but " the calm phi" losophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend " and rival Hume, often forced him to close the volume " with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." From this testimony we may judge, that a simple style appears to the best judges to be more difficult... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me 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... | |
 | 1809 - 594 páginas
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." DR. JOHNSON, a high and commanding authority, objects to the Gallicisms, which, he avers, sometimes... | |
 | 1809 - 592 páginas
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." DR. JOHNSON, a high and commanding authority, objects to the Gallicisms, which, he avers, sometimes... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1811 - 522 páginas
...calm philosophy, the care" less, inimitable beauties of my friend and rival " Hume, often forced me to close the volume " with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." From this testimony we may judge, that a simple style appears to the best judges to be more difficult... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 páginas
...footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me 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 - 1825 - 338 páginas
...footsteps ; the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me 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... | |
 | 1830 - 336 páginas
...footsteps ; the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me 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... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 páginas
...footsteps. The calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Upon this passage in the Memoirs of Gibbon the reviewer makes the following observation : — " The... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 páginas
...footsteps. The calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Upon this passage in the Memoirs of Gibbon the reviewer makes the following observation : — " The... | |
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