 | Edmund Burke - History - 1845 - 892 pages
...correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination. " As an Eastern tale," he said, " even Rasselas must bow before it : his Happy Valley...will not bear a comparison with the Hall of Eblis." Mr. Beckford afterwards went to Portugal, and purchased an estate at Cintra — that " glorious Eden"... | |
 | History - 1845 - 866 pages
...correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination. " As an Eastern tale," he said, " even Rasselas must bow before it : his Happy Valley...will not bear a comparison with the Hall of Eblis." Mr. Beckford afterwards went to Portugal, and purchased an estate at Cintra — that " glorious Eden"... | |
 | C. A. Baron De Bode - Iran - 1845 - 510 pages
...bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an eastern tale, even Easselas must bow before it; his ' Happy Valley ' will not bear a comparison with the Hall of Eblis."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 844 pages
...bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the E ¡ы will find some difficulty in ides of a heart so «oft, yet bold Eblie." Œtie ЗВгШе of A TURKISH TALE. Had we never loved ко kindly, Had we never lovotl so... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 886 pages
...bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in leaves, that drooping cling Faintly and motionless to their loved bo Kasselas must bow before it ; his ' happy valley ' will not bear a comparison with the ' Hall of Ehlu.'"—... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an...will not bear a comparison with the " Hall of Eblis." THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. Calf. Had we never loved so kindly, Had wo never loved so blindly, Never met or... | |
 | Erskine Neale - Death - 1849 - 540 pages
...of a Frenchman. Byron, no mean judge, thus criticises it : — " As an eastern tale, even Easselas must bow before it. His happy valley will not bear a comparison with the hall of Eblis." "You will hardly believe," said Beckford, adverting towards the close of life, in conversation, to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1849 - 168 pages
...costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, Vathek far surpasses all European imitation. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his Happy Valley will not bear comparison with the Hall of Eblis."—Lord Byron. ra. HYPERION. A Romance by HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, Author... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, Vathek far surpasses all European imitations As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his Happy Valley will not bear comparison with the Hall of Eblis."— Lord Byron. III. HYPERION; A Romance, by HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American fiction - 1849 - 276 pages
...costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, Vathek far Em-passes all European imitations. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his Happy Valley will not bear comparison with the Hall of Eblis."—Lord Byron. III. HYPERION; t-^ A Romance, by HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,... | |
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Orientale;" but for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European imitations; and bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in believing it... 
