The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: And the Rev. William Mason; Now First Published from the Original Mss, المجلد 2R. Bentley, 1851 |
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الصفحة 190 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
الصفحة 247 - Ill deeds are seldom slow; Nor single : following crimes on former wai.t : The worst of creatures fastest propagate. Many more murders must this one ensue, As if in death were propagation too.
الصفحة 138 - Mr. Gibbon, I am sorry you should have pitched on so disgusting a subject as the Constantinopolitan History. There is so much of the Arians and Eunomians, and semi-Pelagians ; and there is such a strange contrast between Roman and Gothic manners, and so little harmony between a Consul Sabinus and a Ricimer, Duke of the palace, that though you have written the story as well as it could be written, I fear few will have patience to read it.
الصفحة 7 - Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire n'être fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
الصفحة 181 - Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should not have been could I have foreseen it. After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand...
الصفحة 168 - Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects...
الصفحة 294 - Epic poetry is the art of being as long as possible in telling an uninteresting story; and an epic poem is a mixture of history without truth, and of romance without imagination.
الصفحة 219 - I dined on Monday with the Harcourts at Mrs. Montagu's new palace, and was much surprised. Instead of vagaries it is a noble simple edifice. When I came home, I recollected that though I had thought it so magnificent a house there was not a morsel of gilding, it is grand not tawdry, nor larded and embroidered and pomponned with shreds and remnants and clinquant like all the Harlequinades of Adam, which never let the eye repose a moment.
الصفحة 325 - Vandyck and Sir Godfrey Kneller excelled all painters in hands ; Sir Joshua's are seldom even tolerably drawn. I saw t'other day, one of, if not the best of his works, the portrait of Lord Richard Cavendish. Little is distinguished but the head and hand ; yet the latter, though nearest to the spectator, is abominably bad : so are those of my Three Nieces ; and though the effect of the whole is charming, the details are slovenly, the faces only red and white ; and his journeyman, as if to distinguish...
الصفحة 155 - The Armorican provinces of Gaul and the greatest part of Spain were thrown into a state of disorderly independence by the confederations of the Bagaudae ; and the Imperial ministers pursued with prescriptive laws and ineffectual arms the rebels whom they had made.