 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the....of poetry, rather than the feelings of nature. My arclour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure... | |
 | 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 - 1815 - 558 pages
...I add the name of Voltaire ? — A decent theatre was fitted up (by Voltaire) at Monrepos, &c. — My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed...French. theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my * This must be understood not of M. Pavillard, but another minister of the same church — a mau of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the...habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French tlteatre, arid that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakspeare, which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...adapted to bis years — Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the...perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakspeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman. The wit and philosophy... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...adapted to his years — Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the...perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakspeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman. The wit and philosophy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed tlie enthusiasm of poetry, rather than tbe feelings of nature. My ardour, which soon became conspicuous,...failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortifu i my taste fur the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my adolatry for the gigantic... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the...which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty •f an Englishman. The wit and philosophy of \7oltaire, his table md theatre, refined, in a visible... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage -. and he expressed the...perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of ^hakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty < of an Englishman. The wit and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the...procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortified ray taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...I add the name of- Voltaire ? — A decent theatre was fitted up (by Voltaire) at Monrepos, &c. — My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom,...French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my * This must be understood not of M. Pavillard, but another minister of the sanw «hurch — a man of... | |
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His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry, rather than the feelings of nature. My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure... 
