 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...the characters best adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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
...the characters best adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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
...characters best adapted to bis years — Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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
...characters best adapted to his years — Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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 character best adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation ivas fashioned to 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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...the characters best adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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
...the characters best adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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
...the characters best adapted to his years, Lusignan, Alvarez, Benassar, Euphemon. His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage...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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My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakspeare, which is inculcated... 
