 | England - 1882 - 870 pages
...national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed — and such, still more certainly, as no I man of great original power ever before possessed...subservience to the purposes of inventive genius." That we call fine writing, in the highest sense : original impressions are conveyed in eloquent diction,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 388 pages
...individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed — and such, still more...warlike as well as of peaceful times find their securest dwelling-place — or in more equal converse with the relics of that old school of Scottish cavaliers,... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic.individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed ; and such, still more certainly as, no man ol great original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 616 pages
...individual traits and aneedotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainly, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subserv,ence to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...idual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no mau ever before possessed ; and such, still more certainly, as no man of origin»! power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | 1882 - 844 pages
...serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever 2I4 THE HEROES OF THE 21S before possessed — and such, still more certainly,...subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. That we call fine writing, in the highest sense: original impressions are conveyed in eloquent diction,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 624 pages
...individual traita and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainly, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainty, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was any physiognomy treated with more scanty justice by the portrait painters ; and yet, after... | |
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... chief charm ; the most keen perception, the most tenacious memory, and the most brilliant imagination, having been at work throughout the whole of his busy life, in filling his mind with a store of individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic,... 
