 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 and Catullus down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 325by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pages
...however, to remark, that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonab,e in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities of style and melody ; nay, he copied their manner with admirable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...however, to remark, that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities of style and melody; nay, he copied their manner with admirable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 334 pages
...however, to remark, that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities of style and melody; nay, he copied their manner with admirable... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...however, to remark, that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities of style and melody; nay, he copied their manner with admirable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...however, to remark that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...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 pages
...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." —MACAULAY. celebrated Mr. Addison, of Oxford, proposed to travel as governor to a young gentleman... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...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...Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound."—MACAULAY. Was his gracious intention to allow my Lord Hartford's tutor one hundred guineas... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...however, to remark, that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities of style and melody ; nay, he copied their manner with admirable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...however, to remark that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department...spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating perception of all their peculiarities of style and melody; nay, he copied their manner with admirable... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 pages
...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...Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound."—MACAULAY. was his gracious intention to allow my Lord Hartford's tutor one hundred guineas... | |
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