 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 234 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never ' outsteps the modesty of nature,' nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises 1 5 merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1907 - 142 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never ' outsteps the modesty of nature,' nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Charles W - 1910 - 466 pages
...novelty to domestick scenes and daily occurrences. He never outsteps the modesty of nature, nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never "outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never "outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never "outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never "outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never outsteps the <n>Mtvfm°desty of nature, nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never "outsteps the modesty of nature", nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
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He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination. 
