| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 458 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 446 pages
...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 - Books - 1814 - 718 pages
...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 pages
...• •. 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 pages
...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,... | |
| Classical philology - 1819 - 406 pages
...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.... | |
| Classical philology - 1819 - 404 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 528 pages
...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 - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...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 pages
...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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