 | 1843 - 586 sider
...of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. No. CLVlll will be published in October. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1843. CJLYIII.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 sider
...of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. HER NAME. VICTOR HUGO. A LILY'S pure perfume ; a halo's light ; The Evening's voices mingling... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 sider
...of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. BARERE'S MEMOIRS.* [Edinburgh Review, April, 1844.] THIS book has more than one title to... | |
 | 1845 - 440 sider
...eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners, but, above all, to the great satirist, who so well knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who,...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. CAWDOR CASTLE— MACBETHSUPERSTITION. IT was in the sunny and leafy month of June that... | |
 | 1845 - 864 sider
...eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners, but, above all, to the great satirist, who so well knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who,...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. CAWDOR CASTLE— MACBETHSUPERSTITION. IT was in the sunny and leafy month of June that... | |
 | 1849 - 820 sider
...that it was the crowning glory of Addison to have " reconciled wit and virtue after a long and painful separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy and virtue by fanaticism." This reconciliation was effected in those remarkable sheets, — the origin of our reviews... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 sider
...of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. ilacaulay, Essays. V. 11 THE EARL OF CHATHAM. (OCTOBER, 1844.) 1. Correspondence of William... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 sider
...of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. [RICHARD HURD, Bishop of Worcester, was denominated by Gibbon, who has left a careful examination... | |
 | 1853 - 444 sider
...English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the peal satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism." PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-REGISTERING MAGNETIC AND METEOROLOGICAL APPARATUS. INVF.MTED BY MR.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 sider
...of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all. to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. HURD, Bishop of Worcester, was denominated by Gibbon, who has left a careful examination... | |
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Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It... 
