 | Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1857 - 544 Seiten
...clearness of his style. Gibbon tells iia, that tho ' careless inimitable beauties of Humo oftou forced him to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair ;' and it seemed worse ttum useless in a work like tho present, to dispense with the assistance of... | |
 | George Grote - 1857 - 796 Seiten
...clearness of his style. Gibbon tells us, that the * careless inimitable beauties of Hume often forced him to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair;' and it seemed worse than useless in a work like the present, to dispense with the assistauce of so... | |
 | Sir George Gilbert Scott - 1857 - 330 Seiten
...clearness of his style. Gibbon tells us, that the ' careless inimitable beauties of Hume often forced him to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair ;' and it seemed worse than useless in a work like the present, to dispense with the assistance of... | |
 | Arthur Mills - 1858 - 388 Seiten
...clearness of his style. Gibbon tells us, that the ' careless illimitable beauties of Hume often forced him to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair;' and it seemed worse than useless in a work like the present, to dispense with the oH-sistance of BO... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
..."Tli" perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, In flnuiea me to the ambitious hope that I might one day tread In Ma footateps : the calm philosophy. Uip carelcis, Inimitable beauties ot Ms frtend and rival. Hume,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 Seiten
...will permit. — Adam Smith. The calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties . . David Hume. 22$ often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair. — Gibbon. Sir, Hume is a Tory by chance, as being a Scotchman ; but not upon a principle of duty,... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 Seiten
...writing of Hume and Robertson, says: "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." * As to re-actions, I suppose there has been something of the kind against the supremacy of Pope, since... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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...beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to elose the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair". **) Hume tilskrev Forfatteren bl.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 Seiten
...BOSWKLL'S Joline;H, edit. 1S47, 100. " 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." — OinВОЯ : Autobiography, in hit Miscell. World. CHARACTER OF ALFRED, KI.NQ OP ENGLAND. The merit... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 Seiten
...the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the amtlitious hopo pPab/ — GinBON : A utokio9raphy, in hii Miicell. Workt. CHARACTER OF ALFRED, KING OF ENGLAND. The merit... | |
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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... 
