| Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 536 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...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 pages
...portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...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 pages
...of one who pursued the same line with himself, in the following words. — ' The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...life with equal strength, humour, and propriety.' The romances of Dr. Smollett are not so much distinguished for the invention of the story, as for strong... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 544 pages
...of one who pursued the same line with himself, in the following words. — ' The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...life with equal strength, humour, and propriety.' The romances of Dr, Smollett are not so much distinguished for the invention of the story, as for strong... | |
| Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...of the century, shews how much he understood, and how liberally he praised, the merit of those, who, in the view of the world, must have been regarded...pleasure, as a proof that the disagreement which existed betwixt Smollett and Fielding did not prevent his estimating with justice, and recording in suitable... | |
| Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 pages
...of the century, shews how much he Understood, and how liberally he praised, the merit of those, who, in the view of the world, must have been regarded...passage which we record with pleasure, as a proof that thp disagreement which existed betwixt Smollett and Fielding did not prevent his estimating with justice,... | |
| Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 pages
...didactic poetry ; Glover in his Leonidas aspired to the dignity of the epic ; the genins of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...of life with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history was cultivated by Hume, Rohertson, and Smollett ; but th« fame of the latter... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...portrait painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history and biography, was cultivated by many writers of ahility ; among whom •i»f... | |
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