| Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 536 pàgines
...both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfufed into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters, and ridiculed the follies of life, with equal ftrength, humour, .and propriety. -The field of hiftery and biography was cultivated by many writers... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1804 - 544 pàgines
...both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfufed into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters, and ridiculed the follies of life, with equal firength, humour, and propriety. The field of hiftory and biography was cultivated by many writers... | |
| David Hume - 1810 - 576 pàgines
...celebrated Rosalba in portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history and biography was cultivated by many writers of ability ; among whom we distinguish... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 580 pàgines
...celebrated Rosalba in portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history and biography was cultivated by many writers of ability l among whom we distinguish... | |
| John Moore - 1820 - 552 pàgines
...England, observes, that towards the end of the reign of George II, and about the beginning of that.of his present majesty, ' genius in writing spontaneously...distinguished for the invention of the story, as for strong mas. culine humour, just observations on life, and a great variety of original characters. In Humphry... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 pàgines
...celebrated Rosalba in portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history and biography, was cultivated by many writers of ahility ; among whom •i»f distinguish... | |
| Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 pàgines
...excelled in didactic poetry ; Glover in his Leonidas aspired to the dignity of the epic ; the genins of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding,...life with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history was cultivated by Hume, Rohertson, and Smollett ; but th« fame of the latter must... | |
| Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pàgines
...have been regarded as his immediate rivals. " The genius of Cervantes," in his generous expression, " was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety." A passage which we record with pleasure, as a proof that the disagreement which existed betwixt Smollett... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1822 - 486 pàgines
...celebrated Rosalba in portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history and biography was cultivated by many writers of ability ; among whom we distinguish... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 486 pàgines
...celebrated Rosafta in portrait painting, both in miniature arid at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history and biography was cultivated by many writers of ability; among whom we. distinguish... | |
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