 Aikin has committed the errar, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department of learning, indeed, his proficiency was such as it is hardly possible to overrate. His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius...  Essays on Milton and Addison - Página 233por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 170 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 páginas
...thatMiss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's cías eio.al attainments. In one department of learning, indeed,...Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound. He un deretood them thoroughly, entered into their spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 páginas
...remarkable had been preserved. It is proper, however, to remark, that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's...them thoroughly, entered into their spirit, and had LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON. 89 the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 páginas
...remarkable had been preserved. It is proper, however, to remark that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's...knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus AA 4 down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound. He understood them thoroughly,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...hexameters, was first made aware that England was not altogether a barbarous nation) — hearing that the 1 " His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and...and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound." — MACAOLAY. celebrated Mr. Addison, of Oxford, proposed to travel as governor to a young gentleman... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...Duke of Somerset now announced to one of the most famous scholars of Oxford and Europe that it 1 " His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and...and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound." — MACAULAY. 1 " Our country owes it to him, that the famous Monsieur Boileau first conceived an opinion... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...perusing the present he made him of the Mus<x Anglicancc." — TICKELL (Preface to Addison's Works). * "His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus, down to Claudian andPrudentius, was singularly exact and profound." — MACAULAY. Grace's, but he by no means found... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...hexameters, was first made aware that England was not altogether a barbarous nation) — hearing that the 1 " His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus, down to Claudiau and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound." — MACAULAY. 2 " Our country owes it... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...Duke of Somerset now announced to one of the most famous scholars of Oxford and Europe that it 1 " His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and...and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound." — MACAULAY. was his gracious intention to allow my Lord Hartford's tutor one hundred guineas per... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 páginas
...Duke of Somerset now announced to one of the most famous scholars of Oxford and Europe that it 1 " His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus, down to Clandian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound." — MACAULAY. * " Our country owes it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 páginas
...however, to remark that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overI'ating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...hardly possible to overrate. His knowledge of the Lntin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and... | |
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