| 1827 - 790 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature'; and we are not aware, that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever. The History terminates with the death of Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli had, it seems, intended to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware, that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...employed. Something is lost in accuracy ; but much is * Dante Paradise, Canto xvii. gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected ; but the great characteristic... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not aware, that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever. The history terminates with the death of Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli had, it seems, intended... | |
| Vittorio Alfieri - Poets, Italian - 1845 - 298 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are .not those in which a little of the...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever." — Democratic Review, 3d notice. " This celebrated work is the second of the series of translations... | |
| Frederic Benjamin Page - Texas - 1845 - 202 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever." — Democratic Review, 2d notice. " This celebrated work is the second of the series of translations... | |
| Vittorio Alfieri - Poets, Italian - 1845 - 302 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever."—Democratic Revicu; 2d notice. " This celebrated work is the second of the scries of translations... | |
| Ansaldo Cebā - Citizenship - 1845 - 224 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in/accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected : but the great characteristic... | |
| United States - 1846 - 508 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever. " The History terminates with the death of Lorenzo de' Medici. Machiavelli had, it seems, intended... | |
| United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration...characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever. " The History terminates with the death of Lorenzo de' Medici. Machiavelli had, it seems, intended... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware, that the best ' native town, where some Hindoo merchants of great opulence had fixed their abode. But forever. The history terminates with the death of Lo- : renzo de Medici. Machiavelli had, it seems,... | |
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