 How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall...  Blackwood's Magazine - Página 2831927Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal...undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, whei» he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 páginas
...will probably be dropped, on account of the antiquate style and manner they are delivered in. How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal...shall hardly be understood without an interpreter ? This is like employing an excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Those who apply their... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...History is the complement of poetry. SIR J. STEPHEN. How shall any man who hath a genius for history undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be r:ad with pleasure but a very few years? SWIFT. Histories engage the soul by sensible occurrences,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...History is the complement of poetry. SIR J. STEPHEN. How shall any man who hath a genius for history tion never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low : I live in cal riad with pleasure but a very few years? SWIFT. Histories engage the soul by sensible occurrences,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal...shall hardly be understood without an interpreter ? This is like employing an excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Those who apply their... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal...shall hardly be understood without an interpreter ? This is like employing an excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Those who apply their... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal...shall hardly be understood without an interpreter ? This is like employing an excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Those who apply their... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How, then, shall any man who has a genius for history equal to...shall hardly be understood without an interpreter ? This is like employing an excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Those who apply their... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How, then, shall any man who has a genius for history equal to...shall hardly be understood without an interpreter ? This is like employing an excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Those who apply their... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 páginas
...probably be dropped, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in. How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal...the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such 1 Swift himself has preserved for us the memory of his patron better perhaps than could have been done... | |
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