 | 1874 - 414 Seiten
...The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England ; but the Romance of ' Tom Jones,1 that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive...the palace of the Escurial and the imperial Eagle of Austria."— Gibbon. FINE АВТ. A Collection of Prints and Etchings after Rembrandt, Waterloo, Ruysiael,... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 458 Seiten
...the liberties of the Old, and invaded the treasures of the New World. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance...palace of the Escurial, and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.' Ornate as is Gibbon's language, it yet contains a judgment upon Fielding which has been in... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 400 Seiten
...threatened the liberty of the Old, and invaded the treasures of the New World. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance...the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial eagle of Austria." l Henry Fielding — " the prose Homer of human nature," as Byron styles him2 — was born... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1875 - 50 Seiten
...read as a corrective for any over-statement. " The prose Homer of human nature." — Lord Byron. " The romance of ' Tom Jones/ that exquisite picture...the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." — Gibbon. "Fielding will ever remain the delight of his country, and will always retain... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 552 Seiten
...(the Fieldings) of England : but the romance of " Tom Jones," that exquisite picture of humour and manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.' But here our pleasant reminiscences of the English humourists must end, and some observations... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...invaded the treasures of the new, world. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren in England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite...the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." . . . We have no writer to whom we can point who excels Fielding in the art of setting out... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1876 - 60 Seiten
...read as n corrective for any over-statement. " The prose Homer of human nature." — Lord Byron. " The romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture...the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." — Gibbon. " Fielding will ever remain the delight of his country, and will always retain... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 Seiten
...honour of that noble familie, Of which I meanest boast myself to be.' Spencer, Colin Clout, fc. v. 538. Habsburg : the former, the knights and sheriffs of...and. the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.' As for science, it seems her destiny to invent and discover on the sic vos non vobis principle. Of... | |
 | 1878 - 338 Seiten
...of that writer of whom it was aptly said by one of the greatest of historians that his chief romance will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." ' ' What does it all mean ?' asked Angelina, with quite a bewildered expression, when the... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 Seiten
...of Hapsburgh. The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England; but the roraance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners,...the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." Smollett, his brother novelist, was a Scotsman, also of good family, but poor. He was born... | |
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picture of human manners, will outlive the 'Palace of the Escurial, and the imperial ' eagle of the House of Austria. 
