 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1832 - 550 pàgines
...his talents acquire any fictitious grandeur from opposition with the objects around ; for, though " the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert,"f his excellence lay not alone in adorning, but in cultivating the waste. His military successes... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1833 - 414 pàgines
...his talents acquire any fictitious grandeur from opposition with the objects around ; for, though " the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert,"* his excellence lay not alone in adorning, but in cultivating the waste. His military successes were... | |
 | Anonymous - 1832 - 612 pàgines
...or his talents acquire any fictitious grandeur from opposition with the objects around; for, though "the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert," his excellence lay not alone in adorning, but in cultivating the waste. His military successes were... | |
 | Joseph Snowe - 1839 - 560 pàgines
...left I Roncesvalles alive ? Oh, my heart ! how wert thou coward ; Death and vengeance why survive ? a victory which history ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Sara, cens." — Decline and Fall, c. xlir. § " Reign and Character of Charlemagne." * Romancero de... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pàgines
...of the Roman Empire : " The apparent magnitude of an object is enlarged by an unequal comparison, as the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert." Here the thought is poetical, and the words in which it is dressed are far longer, and more sounding,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pàgines
...of the Roman Empire : " The apparenTTnagnitude of an object is enlarged by an unequal comparison, as the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert." Here the thought is poetical. and the words in which it is dressed are far longer, and more sounding,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 pàgines
...(c. 9, p. 51 — 58), and the fable in an Ingenious Supplement of M. Gaillard (torn. iii. p. 474). The Spaniards are too proud of a victory which history ascribes to ule Gascons,íand romance to thn Зчглсгтн. bishops, might accuse, in some measure, (he imprudence... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pàgines
...Eginhard (c. 9, p. 51-M), and the fable in an ingenious Supplement of M. Gaillard (torn. iii. p. 474). The Spaniards are too proud of a victory which history ascribes to the Gascons,11 and romance to the Saracens. 100 Yet Schmidt, from the best authorities, represents the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pàgines
...emerged : but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison ; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice to his fame I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pàgines
...monks still show memorials of the illustrious Paladin. On this action Gibbon remarks, in a note, that " the Spaniards are too proud of a victory which history...ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Saracens ": whereupon Dean Milman adds : " In fact, it was a sudden onset of the Gascons, assisted by the Basque... | |
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His real merit is doubtless enhanced by the barbarism of the nation and the times from which he emerged : but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison ; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the... 
