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 was due, above all, to the great satirist,... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 366edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
| 1843 - 586 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. No. CLVlll will be published in October. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1843. CJLYIII. ART. I. —... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...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 soft... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. BARERE'S MEMOIRS.* [Edinburgh Review, April, 1844.] THIS book has more than one title to our serious... | |
| 1845 - 440 pages
...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, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. CAWDOR CASTLE— MACBETHSUPERSTITION. IT was in the sunny and leafy month of June that I first rambled... | |
| 1845 - 864 pages
...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, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. CAWDOR CASTLE— MACBETHSUPERSTITION. IT was in the sunny and leafy month of June that I first rambled... | |
| 1849 - 820 pages
...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 and magazines,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. ilacaulay, Essays. V. 11 THE EARL OF CHATHAM. (OCTOBER, 1844.) 1. Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. [RICHARD HURD, Bishop of Worcester, was denominated by Gibbon, who has left a careful examination of... | |
| 1853 - 444 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the peal satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism." PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-REGISTERING MAGNETIC AND METEOROLOGICAL APPARATUS. INVF.MTED BY MR. BROOKE, OF KEPPBL-STRBET,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. [RICHARD KURD, Bishop of Worcester, was denominated by Gibbon, who has left a careful examination of... | |
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