 | Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 366 sidor
...; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between. . . . When I read a chapter in Gibbon, I seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog ; figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or distorted, or discoloured. Nothing... | |
 | William Allingham - 1893 - 396 sidor
...nothing but what may produce an effect ; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between — in fact, his work...the capture of Constantinople. When I read a chapter of Gibbon, I seem to be looking through a luminous haze of fog : figures come and go, I know not how... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 190 sidor
...of nothing but what may produce an effect; he skips from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between : in fact, his work is little else but a disguised collection 15 of all the splendid anecdotes which he could find in any book concerning any persons or nations,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 sidor
...proved an effectual bar to all real familiarity with the temper and habits of imperial Rome. . . . His work is little else but a disguised collection...seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog : — figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or distorted or discoloured... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 sidor
...nothing but what may produce an effect ; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between: in fact, his work...read a chapter in Gibbon I seem to be looking through a1 luminous haze or fog : — figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1905 - 396 sidor
...nothing but what may produce an effect; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between : in fact, his work...seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog: — figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or distorted or discoloured ;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 296 sidor
...nothing but what may produce an effect ; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between : in fact, his work...seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog : — figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or distorted or discoloured... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 sidor
...nothing but what may produce an effect; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between: in fact, his work...seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog: — figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or distorted or discoloured;... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 sidor
...266. Gibbon. — ' Gibbon's style is detestable, but his style is not the worst thing about him. . . . When I read a chapter in Gibbon I seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog.'- — ST Coleridge (Table Talk). See Bagehot's criticism, p. 37. P. 270. Gisborne. — Sir James Stephen... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1917 - 528 sidor
...nothing but what may produce an effect; he skips on from eminence to eminence, without ever taking you through the valleys between: in fact, his work...seem to be looking through a luminous haze or fog : figures come and go, I know not how or why, all larger than life, or distorted or discoloured; nothing... | |
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... taking you through the valleys between: in fact, his work is little else but a disguised collection of all the splendid anecdotes which he could find in any book concerning any persons or nations from the Antonines to the capture of Constantinople.... 
