 Though his style is, in general, correct and elegant, he sometimes draws out " the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in...  The Quarterly Review - 278. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1834Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 oldal
...his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument'; while, on other occasions, he recalls Foote's auctioneer, 'whose manner was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say upon a ribbon as a Raphael.' The other fault reprehended by Person we may imitate Gibbon himself in veiling under the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 646 oldal
...finer than the staple of his argument"; while, on other occasions, he recalls Foote's auctioneer,"whose manner was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say upon a ribbon as a Raphael." The other fault reprehended by Porson we may imitate Gibbon himself in veiling under the... | |
 | Bernard Pitt - 1917 - 212 oldal
...copying, technical facility and veneer. To select examples is an odious duty. Porson compared Gibbon to "Mr. Prig, the auctioneer, whose manner was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say on a ribbon as on a Raphael." There is too much style, often, in Tennyson and Horace, when some trivial... | |
 | 588 oldal
...his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument'; while, on other occasions, he recalls Foote's auctioneer, 'whose manner was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say upon a ribbon as a Raphael.' The other fault reprehended by Porson we may imitate Gibbon himself in veiling under the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 oldal
...his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument " ; while, on other occasions, he recalls Foote's auctioneer, "whose manner was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say upon a ribbon as a Raphael. " The other fault reprehended by Porson we may imitate Gibbon himself in veiling under the... | |
 | 1854 - 694 oldal
...everything was alike, as he was himself, with that inimitably fine manner ' of his, alike in everything. He had as much to say upon a ribbon as upon a Raflaelle. Nor was it only this legitimate game for satire, that Foote ran down in his Auction, but,... | |
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - 1937 - 158 oldal
...verbosity finer than the staple of his argument* In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in...was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say on a ribbon as a Raphael.5 'Sometimes, in his anxiety to vary his phrase, he becomes obscure ; and,... | |
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