Journal of a Voyage to LisbonCambridge University Press, 1913 - 116 páginas |
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Página xiii
... nature and the maturity of a great genius . The result in the latter case is commensurate with the means expended , and Fielding succeeded , where so many who called him master failed , in describing without triviality or insipidity a ...
... nature and the maturity of a great genius . The result in the latter case is commensurate with the means expended , and Fielding succeeded , where so many who called him master failed , in describing without triviality or insipidity a ...
Página xv
... natural love of truth , the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy , the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn . His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a ...
... natural love of truth , the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy , the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn . His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a ...
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... Nature is not , any more than a great genius , always admirable in her productions , and therefore the traveller , who may be called her commentator , should not expect to find every where subjects worthy of his notice . It is certain ...
... Nature is not , any more than a great genius , always admirable in her productions , and therefore the traveller , who may be called her commentator , should not expect to find every where subjects worthy of his notice . It is certain ...
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... nature hath been a most parsimonious distributor of her richest talents , and hath seldom bestowed many on the same person . But on the other hand , why there should scarce exist a single writer of this kind worthy our regard ; and ...
... nature hath been a most parsimonious distributor of her richest talents , and hath seldom bestowed many on the same person . But on the other hand , why there should scarce exist a single writer of this kind worthy our regard ; and ...
Página 14
... nature could represent to me as worth holding at all ; the world may , I believe , without envy , allow me all the praise to which I have any title . me ; I therefore resigned the office , and the farther execution of my plan to my ...
... nature could represent to me as worth holding at all ; the world may , I believe , without envy , allow me all the praise to which I have any title . me ; I therefore resigned the office , and the farther execution of my plan to my ...
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