 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 páginas
...Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany, and Rings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old,...least natural, I am the more inclined to believe, as 1 am not myself interested in the cause ; for I can derive from my ancestors neither glory nor shame.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 páginas
...brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of AustrisThat these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to believe, as I... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 594 páginas
...of England ; but the romance of " Tom Jones," that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the House of Austria.' This founder of a glory more durable than that of kings was born at Sharpham Park, in Somersetshire,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 páginas
...of England ; but the romance of " Tom Jones," that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.' As for science, it seems her destiny to invent and discover on the sic vos non vobis principle. Of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 554 páginas
...Habsburg . . . The romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the p.ilace of the Escurial and the Imperial eagle of the house of Austria. — Gibbon's Avtobivyropliy. — CUNNINGHAM. lie was a wise man in that his day. My dear child, if... | |
 | 1849 - 636 páginas
...of England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive nal, completed the group. She had been early removed from her native Byron had noble opportunities ; but he was prouder of Bnimmell's acquaintance than Scott's : he preferred... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - 1030 páginas
...England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' ; that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria." Henry's father served under Marlborough and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general ; his mother was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 páginas
...brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle...just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to IJI-IK vr. as I am not myself interested in the cause; for I can derive from my ancestors neither glory... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1869 - 426 páginas
...brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle...in the cause ; for I can derive from my ancestors ne1ther glory nor shame. Yet a sincere and simple narrative of my own life may amuse some of my leisure... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 páginas
...of England ; but the romance of " Tom Jones," that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.' As for science, it seems her destiny to invent and discover on the sic vos non vobis principle. Of... | |
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... latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the Old, and invaded the treasures of the New World. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that... 
