England by his work on Greek and Latin metres ; a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its bulk, than any elementary treatise, on any subject, which we... Jahrbücher der Literatur - Pagina 321826Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1813 - 518 pagina’s
...derision in several parts of Mr. Person's writings. It may be added, that Mr. Hermann is best known in England by his work on Greek and Latin metres ;...book of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its bulk, than... | |
| 1813 - 534 pagina’s
...derision in several parts of Mr. Person's writings. It may be added, that Mr. Hermann is best known in England by his work on Greek and Latin metres ;...book of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its bulk, than... | |
| 1826 - 686 pagina’s
...derision in several parts of Mr. Porson's writings. It may 1)0 added , that Mr. Hermann is host known ¡n England by his work on Greek and Latin metres; a book, of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its bulk, than... | |
| 1857 - 422 pagina’s
...characterises that work (the first edition, he it remembered, — not the work ue are familiar with) as ' a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its bulk, than... | |
| John Selby Watson - 1861 - 478 pagina’s
...work from what it was at its first appearance. Of the first edition Elmsley remarked that it was " a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its bulk, than... | |
| Martin Lowther Clarke - 1937 - 158 pagina’s
...published in 1796, at the age of twenty-four, an elaborate treatise on metres, which Elmsley described as 'a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said, and which contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information in proportion to its bulk, than any... | |
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