 | John Aikin - 1808 - 588 ページ
...justly accused of frequent antitheses, inflated diction, idle conceits, and gigantic thoughts. Towards the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, some great champions, mostly in Tuscany, had waged war against the prevailing bad taste, and they had... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - 590 ページ
...scientific purpose, extended views, together with interesting and useful results-, which the efforts of the contracted minds of the disciples of the Linnaean...meet with that assistance which the improvements of Linnaeus subsequently furnished : for they wanted those brief, specific descriptions which characterize... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 ページ
...German literature; but Opitz was a solitary phenomenon, and one to whom no equal afterwards appeared. The close of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, were marked by retrogression. Bad taste prevailed, and threatened the literature of Germany with complete... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 ページ
...German literature; but Opitz was a solitary phenomenon, and one to whom no equal afterwards appeared. The close of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, were marked by retrogression. Bad taste prevailed, and threatened the literature of Germany with complete... | |
 | William Hill - 1839 - 260 ページ
...more than twenty years after the Presbytery had been formed. The case was very different, however, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, when the Presbytery was about being formed. Let us now notice Professor Hodge's statement respecting... | |
 | Nicholas French - 1846 - 242 ページ
...come. The reasons which hindered our detailing the history of the Irish Pastoral Colleges, through the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, here again obstruct our narrative. The wars and tumults which affected the one, of course affected... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1847 - 700 ページ
...early period in Massachusetts, those in New York, and those planted in Virginia and South Carolina, in the close of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Will not some descendant of the Huguenots gather up the fragments of documents and traditions, so that... | |
 | 1884 - 672 ページ
...by Square in Tom Jones." Permit me to add that it was a cant phrase among the deistical writers of the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. If your correspondent can refer to John Leland's View of Deistical Writers, he will find much on the... | |
 | Edward Hicks - 1851 - 376 ページ
...and there must be a cause for this effect. That if I was not mistaken in my information, there was, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, seven hundred meetings of Friends in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and now they would scarcely... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke (author of The British gazetteer.) - 1851 - 382 ページ
...both extremities of the royal army. War had not assumed the scientific chaVOL. n. B racter with which, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, it was conducted, and the expeditions which arose out of the contest between Charles and his Parliament,... | |
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POETRY, written at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries... 
