 | Charles Anthon - 1881 - 1486 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 Fail, c. 48.) And yet, at the eamc time, her work forms a useful contrast to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 922 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 Itrain of panegyric and apology... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1886 - 732 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...betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. Tho genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and tho perpetual strain... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 540 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 666 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 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...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... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 736 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...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 876 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 498 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 506 էջ
...deceased 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;... 
