 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring; the exquisite choice of...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring; the exquisite choice of...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring; the exquisite choice of...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi, Thomas Roscoe - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exquisite choice of circumstances, caleulated to produce the deepest impression, and which place...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes; but the events, to which he was a... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 904
...historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exqulsite choice of circumstances, calculated to produce the...exciting disgust; and the emotion of the writer, which fn•enelbly pervades every part, give to this Sict ure that true eloquence of history.wbich i Thucydldes... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exquisite choice...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exquisite choice...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
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... pathetic and tender to the most sportive, and, unfortunately, the most licentious, exhibit a wonderful power of narration ; and his description of the plague in Florence, which serves as an introduction to them, may be ranked with the most celebrated... 