 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In* a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes, fades away before it. • In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...criticifm; exact without minutenefs* and lofty without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Long'nus, on the atteftation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demofthenes,...curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, dimimfhed, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of Shaklpeare, in all their emulation of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...exaggeration — The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its covriprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added,... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...encomiaftick criticifm ; exact without minuteuefs, and lofty without exaggeration. The praife laviflied by Longinus, on the atteftation of the heroes of Marathon,...fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a chara6ler, fo extenfive in its comprehenfion, and fo curious in its limitations, that nothing can be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
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Demosthenes fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished or... 
