 | John Lemprière - 1833 - 822 էջ
...historian is lost in the daughter -, and, instead of simplicity of style and narrative, as Gibbon says, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The best edition of Anna Commcna is that of Paris, folio, 1651. ANNJEUS, a Roman family, which was subdivid... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 500 էջ
...dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and...vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1838 - 818 էջ
...lost in the daughter; and, instead of simplicity of style and narrative, as Gibbon says, an elabórale affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The best edition of Anna Commena is that of Paris, folio, 1651. ANNJEUS, a Roman family, which was subdivided... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1841 - 432 էջ
...work, given by Gibbon, is as follows: — " Instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and...vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual train of panegyric and apology,... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1841 - 800 էջ
...historian is lost in the daughter ; and instead of that simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. (Gibbon's Decline and Fall, c. 48.) And yet, at the same time, her work forms a useful contrast to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 էջ
...dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and...vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 458 էջ
...sacred than the memory of her parent. Yet, instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and...in every page the vanity of a female author." The ' Alexiad,' however, though chargeable with a good deal of inaccuracy or indistinctness unconnected... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 670 էջ
...Yet, instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, au elaborate afiectation of rhetoric and- science betrays in every page the...vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 462 էջ
...dear than the memory of her parent. Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and...vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 484 էջ
...parent, Gibbon remarks truly, that " instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins a belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science...vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology... | |
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Yet, instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues;... 
