 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...  The Quarterly Review - 432 psl.redagavo - 1834Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 756 psl.
...correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, this most Eastern and sublime tale surpasses all European imitations; and bears such...originality that those who have visited the East will have some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an Eastern tale, even Raeselaa... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 260 psl.
...the " Bibliotheque Orientale : " but for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and p_ower of imagination, it far surpasses all European imitations...East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his "Happy Valley" will... | |
 | Richard Halkett - 1889 - 766 psl.
...of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, this most eastern and sublime tale tar surpasses all European imitations; and bears such...who have visited the East will find some difficulty iu believing it to be morn than a translation." In a recent discovery of mine at the Bodleian this... | |
 | William Beckford - 1891 - 604 psl.
...it : " ' Vathek ' was one of the tales I had a very early admiration of. For correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it...East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an Eastern tale, even 'Rasselas' must bow before it; his 'happy valley'... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - 1894 - 300 psl.
...8vo, sprinkled calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE (FINE COPY), £3 3s " For correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European imitations. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it ; his (Johnson's) ' Happy Valley* will not bear... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 410 psl.
...unrivalled in European literature. " For correctness of costume," says Byron, in one of his diaries, "beauty of description, and power of imagina'tion,...will ' find some difficulty in believing it to be a translation. As an ' Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it : his ' Happy 'Valley' will not... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - 1899 - 396 psl.
...stained calf extra, gilt r-//;.v ••, by RIVIEKE (fine copy) £3 3s ' for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European Imitations. As an Eastern talc, even Rasselas must bow before it ; his (Johnson s) ' Happy Valley will not bear... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 166 psl.
...in the last note to The Giaour calls it a sublime tale, and says that "for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination it far surpasses all European imitations." 7. form'd for form'dst, certainly not grammatical. 8. Byron wrote: "I only wish to adduce an example... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - 1900 - 516 psl.
...EDITION, 8vo, stained ealf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE (fine copy), £3 3s " For correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European Imitations. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his (Johnson's) ' Happy Valley ' will not bear... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1902 - 412 psl.
...unrivalled in European literature. "For correctness of costume," says Byron, in one of his diaries, "beauty of description, and power of imagination,...originality, that those who have visited the East will '6nd some difficulty in believing it to be a translation. As an ' Eastern tale, even Rasselas must... | |
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