 | 1841 - 862 страница
...sword." Each had his measured phraseology : but Johnson's was grand, Gibbon's elegant — the Btateliness of the former, however, being sometimes pedantic,...had treated him as a troublesome child,) " Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises, by condescending, once or twice in the course of the evening, to talk... | |
 | 1830 - 504 страница
...Gibbon's elegant : the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets : Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys. Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon leveled walks through parks and gardens.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 страница
...Gibbon's elegant; the stateliqess of the former was sometimes pedantick, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets ; Gibbon moved to flutes and haut-boys : Johnson hewed passages through the1 Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 страница
...statelinesj of the ft;rmt-r was sometimes pedantick, and the polish of the latter was occa«ionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets ; Gibbon moved to flutes and haut-boys: Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 страница
...' asses of great charge' introduced. That'on ' To be, or not to be,' is disputable." (2) latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets ; Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.... | |
 | 1837 - 490 страница
...Gibbon's elegant ; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums...hauthoys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as 1 had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured... | |
 | 1837 - 534 страница
...Gibbon's elegant; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets; Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.... | |
 | 1837 - 980 страница
...Gibbon's elegant ; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets; Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 страница
...Gibbon's elegant ; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets ; Gibbon moved to flutes and haut-boys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 страница
...Gibbon's elegant ; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums...hauthoys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured... | |
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Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson... 
