 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 oldal
...way the views which the romantics put into words. Gibbon, for example, speaks in his Memoir of the " idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which...from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman." Boswell complains that " a blind indiscriminating admiration of Shakespeare had [by 1765] exposed the... | |
 | 1921 - 930 oldal
...way, the views which the romantics put into words. Gibbon, for example, speaks in his Memoir of the ' idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which...from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.' Boswell complains that 'a blind indiscriminating admiration of Shakespeare had [by 1765] exposed the... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 666 oldal
..." — " Shakespeare, or the Poet," in " Representative Men." i "That taste [for the French Theatre] has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius...from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman." — Gibbon, "Memoirs of my Life." Hume blames in Shakespeare " his total ignorance of all theatrical... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 oldal
...way the views which the romantics put into words. Gibbon, for example, speaks in his Memoir of the " idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which...from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman." Boswell complains that " a blind indiscriminating admiration of Shakespeare had [by 1765] exposed the... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 oldal
...sake, read Shakespeare but get Racine and Sophocles by heart'33 while Gibbon remarked in his Memoirs: 'taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the Gigantic...inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman'.34 Gibbon was so great a poet of history, however, that while he professed his loyalty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 oldal
...feelings of Nature. My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket; the habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the...from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman. The wit and philosophy of Voltaire, his table and theatre, refined in a visible degree the manners... | |
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My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated... 
