 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
.....70. CHAP, sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the L' productions of human genius.93 The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach,...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius f . The harmony and copiousness of stile will not reach, in a version, the European infidel;...impatience, the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation^ which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pages
...the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach,...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation ; which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 pages
...the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach,...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation ; which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...assert, that God alone could dictate so extraordinary a performance. The harmony and copiousness of the style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel...trivial matters ; and exhortations to charity are sullied bycommands of war against infidels. As the different parts of the Koran were written for occasional... | |
 | 1822 - 746 pages
...on tBer merit of hie book, audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties of » single passage, and presumes to assert God alone could...trivial matters : and exhortations to charity are sullied by commands of war against infidels. As the different parts of the Koran were written for occasional... | |
 | Thomas R. Joliffe - 1822 - 534 pages
...the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach,...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, — which sometimes crawls... | |
 | William Henry Neale - 1828 - 300 pages
...all credible history. and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or idea, which sometimes crawls in the... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 pages
...reader will pardon this digression. In presenting even a sketch of Arabian history, it cannot be * ' The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach,...impatience the endless, incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 pages
...sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. (3) The harjnony_ and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version,...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in... | |
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The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel : he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes... 
