 ... of the time are lost to us ; but there is a pleasing luxuriance of imagination which runs through the whole, and renders it still agreeable to the modern reader, notwithstanding the extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others....  A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece - Page 225by Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson - 1858 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr Francis... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr Francis... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 556 pages
...extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr Francis... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 532 pages
...parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano liergerac took his idea of a Journey to the Moon, and Rabelais...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr Francis... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1858 - 476 pages
...introduction in an exquisite rein of irony, upon the art of writing history From the True Bintory of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...original, but is more particularly indebted to the work of Babelais, which satirizes severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his time.' VOL. TI.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 pages
...extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr. Francis... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the True History of Lucian, Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr. Francis... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 464 pages
...extravagance of some parts of the fiction, and the flatness of others. From the! True History of Lucian; Cyrano Bergerac took his idea of a Journey to the...severely the various orders of the law and clergy of his period. In a tract, republished in the Harleian Miscellany, said to have been written by Dr. Francis... | |
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