 | John Mackintosh - 1890 - 392 ページ
...only wished to rank with them — " The perfect composition, the nervous language, and the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...hope that I might one day tread in his footsteps." Patrick F. Tytler was the author of a " History of Scotland," and many other works, chiefly of a biographical... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 ページ
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed me to the ambitious...delight and despair. The design of my first work, £he Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement of vanity, the desire of justifying... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 ページ
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume wilh a mixed sensation of delight and despair. The design of my first work, the Essay on the Study... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 ページ
...repeated FIRST ESSAr. 167 perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...design of my first work, the Essay on the study of litterature, was suggested by a refinement of vanity, the desire of justifying and praising the object... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 ページ
...different feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious...design of my first work, the Essay on the study of litterature, was suggested by a refinement of vanity, the desire of justifying and praising the object... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 370 ページ
...feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect compositioii, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed me to the ambitious...rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed 5 sensation of delight and despair. [FIRST PUBLISHED WORK.] The design of my first work, the Essay... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 ページ
...feelings in the repeated perusals. The perfect composi 1 tion, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed me to the ambitious...the careless, inimitable beauties of his friend and jival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed 5 : and despair./ IJJJBLISHED WORK.] : work,... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 ページ
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 ページ
...nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious hope that 1 might one day tread in his footsteps : the calm philosophy,...close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.2 The design of my first work, the Essay on the Study of Literature, was suggested by a refinement... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 ページ
...expressions temperate. " Gibbon said, "The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-trained periods of Dr. Robertson inflamed me to the ambitious...careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, Hume, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair." EDWARD GIBBON... | |
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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... 
