| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - Liczba stron: 488
...the naked perfect truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...affectation of rhetoric and science, betrays in every page th* vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - Liczba stron: 526
...truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet, instead of the simplicity of stile and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate...betrays, in every page, the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - Liczba stron: 488
...naked per"^ ^*~ feet truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of he.r parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain... | |
| John Lemprière - 1820 - Liczba stron: 892
...historian is lost in the daughter; and instead of simplicity of styta style and narrative, as Gibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The best edition of Anna Commcna, is that of Paris, fbllo, 1651. ANN^UB, a Roman family which was subdivided... | |
| John Lemprière - 1822 - Liczba stron: 840
...historian is lost in the daughter: and instead of simplicity of style and narrative, as Gibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The best edition of Anna Commena, is that of Paris, folio, 1651. АУХЛ;| s. a Roman family which... | |
| John Lemprière - 1822 - Liczba stron: 818
...historian is lost in the daughter: and instead of simplicity of style and narrative, as Qibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity uf a female author. The best edition of Anna Commena, is that of Paris, folio, 1661. AKN.EUS, a Roman... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - Liczba stron: 542
...the naked perfect truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet, instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of the author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - Liczba stron: 460
...that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual strain... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - Liczba stron: 484
...that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual strain... | |
| 1833 - Liczba stron: 448
...that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief,...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues .; and the perpetual strain... | |
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