 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1800 - 536 pages
...both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfufed into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters, and ridiculed the follies of life, with equal ftrength, humour, .and propriety. -The field of hiftery and biography was cultivated by many writers... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1804 - 544 pages
...both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons. The genius of Cervantes was transfufed into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters, and ridiculed the follies of life, with equal firength, humour, and propriety. The field of hiftory and biography was cultivated by many writers... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 580 pages
...barren of poets at this period, appears from the detached performances of Johnson, Mason, Gray, the twa Whiteheads, and the two Wartons ; besides a great...biography was cultivated by many writers of ability l among whom we distinguish the copious Guthrie, the circumstantial Ralph, the laborious Carte, the... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 552 pages
...suffrage to the great talents of one who pursued the same line with himself, in the following words. — ' The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life with equal strength, humour, and propriety.' The romances of Dr. Smollett are not so much distinguished for the invention of the story, as for strong... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 544 pages
...suffrage to the great talents of one who pursued the same line with himself, in the following words. — ' The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels...life with equal strength, humour, and propriety.' The romances of Dr, Smollett are not so much distinguished for the invention of the story, as for strong... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...delicate taste, the polished muse, and tender feelings of a Lyttelton. King shout unrivalled in (Ionian eloquence. Even the female sex distinguished themselves...history and biography, was cultivated by many writers of ahility ; among whom •i»f distinguish the copious Guthrie, the circumstantial r..,i Ralph, Ralph,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...excelled in didactic poetry ; Glover in his Leonidas aspired to the dignity of the epic ; the genins of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding,...strength, humour, and propriety. The field of history was cultivated by Hume, Rohertson, and Smollett ; but th« fame of the latter must rest upon his inimitable... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...have been regarded as his immediate rivals. " The genius of Cervantes," in his generous expression, " was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety." A passage which we record with pleasure, as a proof that the disagreement which existed betwixt Smollett... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...have been regarded as his immediate rivals. « The genius of Cervantes,» in his generous expression, «was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who...life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety.» A passage which we record with pleasure, as a proof that the disagreement which existed between Smollett... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...have been regarded as his immediate rivals. " The genius of Cervantes," in bis generous expression, " was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted...ridiculed the follies of life, with equal strength, 1 The article upon The Sosciad, in the Critical Review, (that fertile mother of all the dissensions... | |
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The genius of Cervantes was transfused into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters, and ridiculed the follies of life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. 
