 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 páginas
...feldom excites a fentiment or an idea , which fometimes crawls in the duft , and is fomerimes loft in the clouds.- The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian miffionary; but his loftieft ftrains muft yield to the fublime fimplicity of the book of Job, compofed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 páginas
...version, the European infidel: he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites...must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Ji>:>, composed in a remote age, in the same country and in the same language.94 If the composition... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 370 páginas
...human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not, in a version, reach the European infidel. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian...composed in a remote age, in the same country, and the same language. At the end of two hundred years, the Sonna, or oral law, was fixed and consecrated... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - 366 páginas
...will not, in a version, reach the European infidel. The divine attributes exalt tlie fancy of »he Arabian. missionary ; but his loftiest strains must...simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote •ge, in the same country, and the same language. At the end of two hundred years, the Smmui or oral... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1807 - 338 páginas
...endless inco" herent rhapsody of fable, precept and *' declamation, which seldom excites a sen" timent or idea, which sometimes crawls " in the dust, and is...clouds. The divine attributes exalt the " fancy of an Arabian missionary; but his u loftiest strains must yield to the sublime " simplicity of the book... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 páginas
...version, the European infidel : he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation ; which seldom excites...exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary ; but his lotjiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote age,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 páginas
...version, the European infidel : he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation ; which seldom excites...sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, 197 and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 páginas
...will peruse with impatience, the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and dednmation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which...missionary; but his loftiest strains must yield to I be sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote age, in the same country and in the... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 páginas
...single page, and presumes to assert that God alone could dictate this incomparable performance. Yet his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity...composed in a remote age in the same country and in the^ame language.* The contents of the Koran were at first diligently recorded by his disciples on... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 700 páginas
...d'Orleans, Chant I7me. Gibbon well denominates the Koran, " an endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites...in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds." Chap. 1. p. 269. Yet it is a superior composition to any work among the Hindus. BOOK II. actions of... | |
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The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel: he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes... 
