 But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached,...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Стр. 146авторы: Alexander Chalmers - 1813Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1863 - Страниц: 394
...verba ardentia," forcible expreffions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmoft verge of propriety ; and flights which would never...reached, but by one who had very little fear of the mame of falling. There remains yet an objection againft the writings- of BROWNE, more formidable than... | |
 | William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - Страниц: 522
...words that idea, for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing and his temerities happy ; he has many '...had very little fear of the shame of falling."* The College of Physicians possesses a good portrait of this distinguished physician. Although I can find... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1905 - Страниц: 236
...words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy. He has many verba...had very little fear of the shame of falling." The earlier part, at least, of this criticism might be a direct apology for the character of Dr. Johnson's... | |
 | Edward Augustus George - 1908 - Страниц: 248
...words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many "verba...had very little fear of the shame of falling. The reader's attitude will determine whether he will be annoyed by pedantry, or pleased with the "learned... | |
 | Lawrence Gilman - 1908 - Страниц: 232
...discerned in the style of Sir Thomas Browne : "forcible expressions which he would never have used but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety...who had very little fear of the shame of falling." Of such quality is the passage which portrays 74 the agonised suspense of Salome during the beheading... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - Страниц: 384
...strangeness, due principally to the excess of Latin. "He has many verba ardentia," said Dr. Johnson, "forcible expressions, which he would never have found,...who had very little fear of the shame of falling." There is undoubtedly a risk in this constant recourse to Latin idioms as may be seen in many of his... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - Страниц: 380
...strangeness, due principally to the excess of Latin. "He has many verba ardentia," said Dr. Johnson, "forcible expressions, which he would never have found,...who had very little fear of the shame of falling." There is undoubtedly a risk in this constant recourse to Latin idioms as may be seen in many of his... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - Страниц: 374
...expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and nights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling." There is undoubtedly a risk in this constant recourse to Latin idioms as may be seen in many of his... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - Страниц: 560
...expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and nights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling." There is undoubtedly a risk in this constant recourse to Latin idioms as may be seen in many of his... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - Страниц: 376
...expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and nights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling." There is undoubtedly a risk in this constant recourse to Latin idioms as may be seen in many of his... | |
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