 ... imitate the fimplicity of Dean Swift's ftyle in his Gulliver's Travels, and to endeavour to give as much the appearance of credibility to what truth they relate as he has given to his monftrous fictions ; not that I would be underftood to recommend...  Of the Origin and Progress of Language - Stran 372avtor: Lord James Burnett Monboddo - 1786 - 514 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 588 strani
...; not that I would be underftood to recommend the ftyle of thofe travels as a pattern for hiftory, for which it never was intended, being indeed an excellent...the narrative of a failor, but wanting that gravity, oignity, and ornament which the hiftorical ftyle requires. For the fubje£l being the great affairs... | |
 | James Burnett - 498 strani
...; not that I would be underftood to recommend the ftyle of thofe travels as a pattern for hiftory, for which it never was intended, being indeed an excellent...therefore, fhould be well chofen, and the beft in common ufe, and they fhould be put together with an agreeable compofition. For hiftory ought not to be written... | |
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