 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 458 σελίδες
...nature. These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian. He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of...descriptive poetry, is soft and splendid ; and he seldom * See Clandian's first Epistle. Yet, in some places, an air of irony and indignation betrays his secret... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 446 σελίδες
...nature. These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian. He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of...more especially in descriptive poetry, is soft and b See Claudian.s Jrst Epistle. Yet, in some places, an air of irony . and indignation betrays his secret... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 σελίδες
...accompanies it, is, comparatively, a very tame translation of an author, who, according to Gibbon, ' was endowed with the rare and precious talent of raising...meanest, of adorning the most barren, and of diversifying th« most similar topics.' P 3 MISCELLANEOUS. M.&T. 30. — Remarks on the Case of Lord Cochrane. "By... | |
 | Claudius Claudianus - 1817 - 654 σελίδες
...• •. 338 The Praises of Hercules, ' 338 THE WORKS OF CLAUDIAN, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH TERSE. " He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of...barren, and of diversifying the most similar topics." . GIBBON. CL. CLAUDIANI PROBINI ET OLYBRII Fratrum CONSULATUM PANEGYRIS. oOL, qui flammigeris mundum... | |
 | Claudius Claudianus - 1817 - 316 σελίδες
...V' : THE WORKS OF CLAUDIAN: WORKS or CLAUDIAN, // * A. HAWKINS, ESQ. FHS IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. " He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of raising the meanest, of adorning the must barren, and of diversify iun ih« most similar topics." GIBBOK. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J PORTER,... | |
 | 1819 - 406 σελίδες
...possesses more unequivocal claims in.the sterling merit of his compositions. These prove indeed that he was endowed with the rare and precious talent of...barren, and of diversifying the most similar topics ; and in the hands of Mr. Hawkins, bis genius has been naturalised in Great Britain." MONTHLT MAG.... | |
 | 1819 - 404 σελίδες
...the sterling merit of his compositions. These prove indeed that he was endowed with the rare .•./id precious talent of raising the meanest, of adorning...barren, and of diversifying the most similar topics ; and in the hands of Mr. Hawkins, his genins has been naturalised in Great Britain." MONTHLY MAG.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 528 σελίδες
...nature. These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian. He. was endowed with the rare and precious talent of raising the meanest, and adorning the most barren, and of diversifying the most similar, topics : his colouring, more especially... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 σελίδες
...installation odes, and panegyrics on inconsiderable people in an uninteresting age. Gibbon says, ' He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of...barren, and of diversifying the most similar, topics.' We may, perhaps, fitly conclude this article with a translation from Claudian in prose from the graceful... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 σελίδες
...nature. These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian. He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of...most barren, and of diversifying the most similar, CHAP. topics : his colouring, more especially in descriptive ^ poetry, is soft and splendid; and he... | |
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He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of raising the meanest, of adorning the most barren, and of diversifying the most similar, topics... 
