 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 572 trang
...expectations, he tells his own tale : — " I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment ! All classes of men and readers united in their rage against him who had presumed to shed a generous... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 trang
...expectations of the success of this work. 1 thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable wa» my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation;... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 366 trang
...expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...Freethinker and Religionist, Patriot and Courtier, united hr their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and... | |
 | ISAAC DISRAELI - 1865 - 566 trang
...expeetations, he tells his own tale : — " I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...and, as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expeeted proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment t All classes of men and readers... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 trang
...in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...popular prejudices ; and as the subject was suited to my capacity, I expected proportionate success." But whatever might be the want of such a work, and... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 498 trang
...or, rather, to be so just to all, that he should gain universal approbation. " Miserable," he adds, " was my disappointment. I was assailed by one cry of...disapprobation, and even detestation. English, Scotch, Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, free-thinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united,... | |
 | Edmund Pfleiderer - 1874 - 556 trang
...nicht nur in seinen Sitten, sondern auch in seiner Dichtkunst und Aesthetik *) Hume bemerkt einmal: „as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause" (I. XVII.); und gesteht ein anderes Mal (II. 113) für seine Philosophie sehr bezeichnend, die Imagination... | |
 | Edmund Pfleiderer - 1874 - 560 trang
...nicht nur in seinen Sitten, sondern auch in seiner Dichtkunst und Aesthetik *) Hume bemerkt einmal: „as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause" (I. XVII.); und gesteht ein anderes Mal (11.113) für seine Philosophie sehr bezeichnend, die Imagination... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 772 trang
...expectations, he tells his owu tale : — " I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment I All classes of men and readers united in their rage against him who had presumed to shed a generous... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1882 - 548 trang
...expectations, — he tells his own tale : — " I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and, si the suhject was suited to every capacity, I espected proportional applause. But miserahle was my... | |
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I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at onee neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and as the subject was suited to every... 
