| 1805 - 456 sayfa
...hardiness to transgress them. " Bcattie is the only author 1 have seen, whose critical and phi. losophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poetical...subject and the leanest a feast for an epicure in books. lie is so much at his ease too, that bis own character appears in every page ; and, which is very rare,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 sayfa
...writerl ever met with. The only author I have sjcn whose critical and philosophical researches sire diversified and embellished by a poetical imagination,...subject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in bo.'ks. He is so much at his ease too, that his own character appears in every page, and, which is... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 sayfa
...treatise on horsemanship, or the art of fortification. Beattie is the most agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with : the only author I have seen whose...critical and philosophical researches are diversified and embelished by a poetical imagination, that makes even the driest subjects, and the leanest, a feast... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 sayfa
...emphasis, for Beattie, the most agreeable ami amiable writer lever riiet witfi. '- The only author '1 have seen whose critical and philosophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poeii&ft imagination, that makes efven the driest subject, and the leariist, a feast for an epteure'... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 402 sayfa
...philosophical researches >re diversified and embellished by a poetical illummation, that makes even the diiest subject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books He is sj much at his case too, that his own character appean in every page, and, which is very rare, we sec... | |
| George Crabb - 1816 - 788 sayfa
...party which consists of the enlightened and conversible. Beattie le the only author I kno«, «bow critical and philosophical researches are diversified...poetical imagination, that makes even the driest subject apd tbe leanest a Jraet for ap epicure in books. COWPKR, Let us consider to «bom we are indebted for... | |
| Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 sayfa
...:— " Beattie," as Cowper has charmingly described him, " the most agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with ; the only author I have seen whose...subject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books ; one so much at his ease too, that his own character appears in every page, and, which is very rare,... | |
| Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 sayfa
...:— " Beattie," as Cowper has charmingly described him, " the most agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with ; the only author I have seen whose...subject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books ; one so much at his ease too, that his own character appears in every page, and, which is very rare,... | |
| Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 sayfa
...:— " Beattie," as Cowper has charmingly described him, " the most agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with ; the only author I have seen whose...subject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books ; one so much at his ease too, that his own character appears in every page, and, which is very rare,... | |
| Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 sayfa
...:— " Beattie," as Cowper has charmingly described him, " the most agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with ; the only author I have seen whose...subject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in hooks ; one so much at his ease too, that his own character appears in every page, and, which is very... | |
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