 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...that exquisite picture of humour and manners, will outlive the palace of the 44 POETS AND NOVELISTS. Escurial, and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.' But here our pleasant reminiscences of the English humourists must end, and some observations of a general nature be made upon the genius of him who has... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 552 pages
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of " Tom Jones," that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.' Ornate as is Gibbon's language, it yet contains a judgment upon Fielding which has been in gradual... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - American literature - 1875 - 50 pages
...Homer of human nature." — Lord Byron. " The romance of ' Tom Jones/ that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." — Gibbon. "Fielding will ever remain the delight of his country, and will always retain his place... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 pages
...disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones ' — that exquisite picture of human manners — will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial eagle of Austria." ' Henry Fielding — "the prose Homer of human nature," as Byron styles him2 — was born at Sharpham... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. That these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...brethren of Englaiul, bi.t the romance of Tom Jones, that exqinsite pidure of human manners, will uullive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." But there is another view to be taken of Fielding and of his works. He led a rather dissolute life in his... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - Authors, American - 1876 - 60 pages
...Homer of human nature." — Lord Byron. " The romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria." — Gibbon. " Fielding will ever remain the delight of his country, and will always retain his place... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...disdain their brethren in England ; but the romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria." . . . We have no writer to whom we can point who excels Fielding in the art of setting out his characters... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 164 pages
...with Steele entirely; his heart was tender, and his character simTHE AMERICAN BIBLIOPOLIST. «37 pie as a child's. For the genius and character of Fielding,...thoughts and judgments on his illustrious predecessors. (To be continued.') THE TURNER PORTRAITS. There is a current notion prevailing that no portrait of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. That these sentiments are just, or at least natural, I am the more inclined to... | |
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The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. 
