The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePenguin UK, 19 черв. 2000 р. - 848 стор. Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement. |
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... success of The Decline and Fall smoothed Gibbon's path into fresh areas of society. We find him joining new clubs, such as Almack's, and amusing himself by attending lectures in chemistry and anatomy. In May 1777 he left London to spend ...
... success of The Decline and Fall smoothed Gibbon's path into fresh areas of society. We find him joining new clubs, such as Almack's, and amusing himself by attending lectures in chemistry and anatomy. In May 1777 he left London to spend ...
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... original and gifted, might in their lesser spheres apply. In part, this was surely because a central component of Gibbon's achievement was his prose style which, although mannered, eludes successful imitation, and is in any.
... original and gifted, might in their lesser spheres apply. In part, this was surely because a central component of Gibbon's achievement was his prose style which, although mannered, eludes successful imitation, and is in any.
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Edward Gibbon David Womersley. which, although mannered, eludes successful imitation, and is in any case too firmly attached to its author to be usable by another. Nevertheless, the most celebrated nineteenth-century historians deferred ...
Edward Gibbon David Womersley. which, although mannered, eludes successful imitation, and is in any case too firmly attached to its author to be usable by another. Nevertheless, the most celebrated nineteenth-century historians deferred ...
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... preponderate. I cannot dissemble that six ample quartos must have tried, and may have exhausted, the indulgence of the Public; that, in the repetition of similar attempts, a successful Author has much more to lose, than he.
... preponderate. I cannot dissemble that six ample quartos must have tried, and may have exhausted, the indulgence of the Public; that, in the repetition of similar attempts, a successful Author has much more to lose, than he.
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Edward Gibbon David Womersley. a successful Author has much more to lose, than he can hope to gain; that I am now descending into the vale of years; and that the most respectable of my countrymen, the men whom I aspire to imitate, have ...
Edward Gibbon David Womersley. a successful Author has much more to lose, than he can hope to gain; that I am now descending into the vale of years; and that the most respectable of my countrymen, the men whom I aspire to imitate, have ...
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CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTERS IVVI | |
CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
CHAPTER VII | |
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