 | Voltaire - 1761 - 214 lehte
...with which it abounds. It is only furprizing that there are not ftill greater defects in a work, wrote in an age of ignorance, by a man who did not even underftand Latin, and whofe only mafter was his genius *. # * This notion hath been abundantly refuted. The prefent bilhop... | |
 | Voltaire - 1761 - 330 lehte
...nation ! not that I approve the barbarous irregularities which it abounds with : it only aftonifhes me, that there are not many more in a work written...man who did not even underftand* Latin, and had no inftructor but his own genius : and yet, amongft * Mr. V. woifd find it difficult to prove that Shakefpear... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 536 lehte
...to defend the barbarous irregularity with which it abounds. What surprises me is, that there are not more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who understood not Latin, and who had no other master but a happy genius. The piece is faulty; but, amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 472 lehte
...to defend the barbarous irregularity with which it abounds. What surprises me is, that there are not more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who understood not Latin, and who had no other master but a happy genius. The piece is faulty ; but, amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 540 lehte
...to defend the barbarous irregularity with which it abounds. What surprises me is, that there are not more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who understood not Latin, and who had no other master but a happy genius. The piece is faulty ; bat, amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 lehte
...to defend the barbarous irregularity with which it abounds. What surprises me is, that there are not more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who understood not Latin, and who had no other master but a happy genius. The piece is faulty ; but, amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 lehte
...to defend the barbarous irregularity with which it abounds. What surprises me is, that there are not more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who understood not Latin, and who had no other master but a happy genius. The piece is faulty; but, amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 lehte
...attempt in ,' the barbarous irregularity wnh \\luch it abounds. \Yhat surprises me is, thai there are not :j p- ] 6 ȸ ?* b Yk 0 2 ̑ k nun who . stood not Latin, and who h:i master but a happy genius. The ]• faulty; but, amidst such... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 lehte
...to defend the barbarous irregularity with which it abounds. What surprises me is, that there are not understood not I.atin, and who had no other master hut a happy genius. The piecr is faulty; but, amidst... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 328 lehte
...nation ! not that I approve the barbarous irregularities which it abounds with; it only astonishes me, that there are not many more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who did not even understand Latin, and had no instructor but his own genius : and yet, among so many gross faults, with... | |
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What surprises me is, that there are not more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who understood not Latin, and who had no other master but a happy genius. 
