| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...Phalaris's Epistles, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest...his original, so I think the Epistles of Phalaris have more race, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others I have ever seen, either... | |
| 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 864
...voluisti excellere rebus. Well, the ornate and excellent Temple held that "the epistles of Phalaris have more race, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others he had ever seen, either ancient or modern." So much for what Bentley calls Temple's "nicety of last."... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 1108
...Phalaris' Eputieg, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest master in his kind, *nd all others of that sort have been but imitations of his original ; so I think the K/iiftlft of... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...in every branch of literature, science, and art. The ' Letters of Phalaris,' for instance, he said, 'have more race, more spirit, more force of wit and genius,' than any other letters in existence. ' I know several learned men (or that usually Eass for such, under the... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...voluisti excellere rebus." Well, the ornate and excellent Temple held that "the 'Epistles of Phalaris have more race, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others he had ever seen, either ancient or modern." So much for what Bentley calls Temple's "Nicety of Tast."... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras." " The letters of Phalaris have," he said, " more force of wit and genius than any others I have ever seen, either ancient or modern." Then, after putting aside doubts of their genuineness and the opinions that ascribed them to Lucian,... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...Phalaris's Epistles, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest...; so I think the Epistles of Phalaris to have more grace, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others I have ever seen, either ancient... | |
| Falconer Madan - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...comparative merits of ancient and modern literature, Sir William Temple went so far as to write (in 1680), ' I think the Epistles of Phalaris to have more Race,...Wit and Genius, than any others I have ever seen. ... I think he must have little Skill in Painting, that cannot find out this to be an Original,' with... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...favour, praising especially the so-called Epistles of Phalaris, and finding them " to have more grace, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any...others I have ever seen, either ancient or modern." Such praise is in itself a proof that the paragraph was little else than thoughtless phrasing : but... | |
| Richard William Church - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...Phalaris's Epistles, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest master in his kiiid, and all others of that sort have been but imitations of his original ; so I think the Epistles... | |
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