 ... expression, such bounty to his friends, such scorn of his enemies, such honour of learned men, such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but...  The Battle of the Books - Page 64by Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1706 - 238 pages
...by him that poffeft them. And I efteem Lucian to have been no more capable of Writing than of ASing what Phalaris did. In all, one writ you find the Scholar or theSophilt : In all, the other "the Tyrant or the Commander. Effay of Patient and Modern Learning,... | |
 | William Temple - 1731 - 506 pages
...of writing, than of afting what Phalarit did. In all one writ, you find the Scholar or the Sophift; and in all the other, the Tyrant and the Commander. The next to thefe in Time, are Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocratti, Platot Xenopbon, and Ariflotle ; of whom I ihall... | |
 | William Temple - 1757 - 564 pages
...cruelty of revenge, could never be reprefented but by him that pofiefied them ; and I efteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing, than of acting what Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the fcholar or the fophift ; and in all the other, the tyrant and the commander. The next to thefe, in... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1777 - 502 pages
...that pojfejfed them. And I efleem Lucian to have been no more capable of Writing , than ofAcJing , what Phalaris did. In all One writ, you find the Scholar or the Sofhift; and all, the Other f the Tyrant and the Commander. DOCTISSIMO VIRO, GVLIELMO WOTTON SPD RICHARDVS... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 620 pages
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 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...but by him that possessed them ; and I esteem Lucian no more capable of writing, than of acting as Phalaris did. In all one writ , you find the scholar or the sophist ; and in all the other writ, the tyrant and the commander.' — Boyle, Exam. p. 92. After this grave decision of Temple, and... | |
 | William Temple - 1814 - 606 pages
...cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed them ; and I esteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing, than of acting...commander. The next to these, in time, are Herodotus, Thueydides, Hippocrates, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle ; of whom 1 shall say no more than, what I... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 446 pages
...cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed them ; and I esteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing than of acting...Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar and ihe sophist; and, in all the other, the tyrantand the commander." — TEMPLE, tit svpra, vol. 111.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed them ; and I esteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing than of acting...Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar and the sophist ; and, in all the other, the tyrant and the commander." — TEMPLE, vt supra, vol.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 pages
...cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed them ; and I esteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing than of acting...Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar and the sophist ; and, in all the other, the tyrantand the commander." — TEMPLE, vt supra, vol. HI.... | |
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