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" The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-tuned 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... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Seite 49
von Edward Gibbon - 1805
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History of the Revolution in England in 1688, comprising a view of the Reign ...

James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 Seiten
...female graces of elegance and mildness. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...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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Practical Education

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1835 - 574 Seiten
...periods of Dr. Robertson, excited his hopes that he might one day become his equal in writing ; but " the calm philosophy, 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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 Seiten
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the welltimed periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...day tread in his footsteps : the calm philosophy, tie careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced roe to close the volume with...
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The Life of Edward Gibbon: With Selections from His Correspondence, and ...

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 Seiten
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refmement of vanity, the desire of justifying and praising the object of a favourite pursuit. In France,...
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History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the ..., Band 2

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1844 - 380 Seiten
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed me to the ambitious...with a mixed sensation of delight and despair*." The difference between these two Scotchmen in their modes of viewing human life, its nature, impulses and...
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The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 Seiten
...corrupted by the long use of a foreign idiom. By the judicious advice of Mr Mallet, I was directed to the writings of Swift and Addison ; wit and simplicity...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 Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...foreign idiom. By the judicious advice of Mr Mallet, I was directed to the writings of Swift and i/j \ Addison ; wit and simplicity are their common attributes...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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Autobiography: Illus. from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narratives

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...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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History of the apostolic Church, with a general introduction to Church ...

Philip Schaff - 1853 - 720 Seiten
...of Scotland, and of the Stuarts. . . . The perfect composition the nervous language, the well turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." Gibbon, Autobiography, eh. zii. on this account, the more to be regretted, that its author was so utterly...
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Geschichte der apostolischen Kirche: nebst einer allgemeinen ..., Band 2

Philip Schaff - 1854 - 704 Seiten
.... The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well tuned periods of Dr. Robertson influenced me to the ambitious hope that I might one day tread...volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." a) Jm 4o. Aop. (>Bb. I. ®. 827 ff. btr фагрег|'феп Miieg.) feiner Öicflrapbie be« rietet...
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