The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in na...tureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred king...s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »