...years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His deelamation was fashioned to the pomp and eadenee of the old stage, and he expressed the enthusiasm...poetry rather than the feelings of nature. My ardour, whieh soon beeame eonspieuous, seldom failed to proeure me a tieket." One visitor, at least, did not...

...c'est le grenier du maltre de ces lieux." (Read's Hist. Studies, ii. , 211.) num. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...enthusiasm of poetry, rather than the feelings of nature.1 My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits...

...Gibbon that Voltaire's declamation was " fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage," and that "he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of nature." The criticism may be aptly applied to his dramatic writing. Yet in spite of more than occasional frigidity,...

...Gibbon that Voltaire's declamation was "fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage," and that "he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of nature." The criticism may be aptly applied to his dramatic writing. Yet in spite of more than occasional frigidity,...

...Gibbon that Voltaire's declamation was " fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage," and that "he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of nature." The criticism may be aptly applied to his dramatic writing. Yet in spite of more than occasional frigidity,...

...de Villars, 25 mars 1762. (9) Souvent même il les déclamait avec emphase : « His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of nature. » (Gibbon iK.) : Memoin of my life, Sheffield's edition, p. 129.) (10) Cf. Duvcrnet (abbe) : Vic de...

...gentleman, who years later, in his well-polished Autobiography, declared that Voltaire's " declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage,...enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of Nature " ; while Voltaire, in the gay impromptu of his style, declared of himself he was " the best old fool...

...— " Shakespeare, or the Poet," in " Representative Men.'' 3 "That taste [for the French Theatre] has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius...Shakespeare which is inculcated from our infancy as ihe first duty of an Englishman."--Gibbon, "Memoirs of my Life." Hume blames in Shakespeare " his total...

...representations. Voltaire played the parts suited to his years; his declamation, Gibbon thought, was oldfashioned, and "he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of nature." "The parts of the young and fair," he said, "were distorted by Voltaire's fat and ugly niece." Despite...

...Voltaire played the parts suited to his years; his declamation, Gibbon thought, was old-fashioned, and "he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry rather than the feelings of nature." "The parts of the young and fair," he said, "were distorted by Voltaire's fat and ugly niece." Despite...