Lives of English poetsNichols and Son, 1801 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 37
עמוד 8
... elegant and moving turns of Pliny , and the acute and wife reflections of Tacitus . This Since Temple and Roscommon , no man under- ftood Horace better , especially as to his happy dic- tion , rolling numbers , beautiful imagery , and ...
... elegant and moving turns of Pliny , and the acute and wife reflections of Tacitus . This Since Temple and Roscommon , no man under- ftood Horace better , especially as to his happy dic- tion , rolling numbers , beautiful imagery , and ...
עמוד 11
... elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is fo juftly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , fhe has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage ...
... elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is fo juftly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , fhe has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage ...
עמוד 21
... elegant mixture of fondness and admiration , of dignity and foftnefs . There are fome paffages too ludicrous ; but every human per- formance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and ...
... elegant mixture of fondness and admiration , of dignity and foftnefs . There are fome paffages too ludicrous ; but every human per- formance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and ...
עמוד 58
... His poetry has been praised at leaft equally to its merit . In the Difpenfary there is a strain of smooth and free verfification ; but few lines are eminently elegant . elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few 58 GARTH .
... His poetry has been praised at leaft equally to its merit . In the Difpenfary there is a strain of smooth and free verfification ; but few lines are eminently elegant . elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few 58 GARTH .
עמוד 59
Samuel Johnson. elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few rife much above it . The plan feems formed without juft proportion to the fubject ; the means and end have no neceffary connection . Refnel , in his Preface to Pope's ...
Samuel Johnson. elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few rife much above it . The plan feems formed without juft proportion to the fubject ; the means and end have no neceffary connection . Refnel , in his Preface to Pope's ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 144 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
עמוד 110 - He taught us how to live ; and, oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.
עמוד 30 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
עמוד 285 - IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station...
עמוד 91 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
עמוד 44 - Sir, I have brought a mouse to wait on your Majesty." To which the King is said to have replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him ;" and ordered him a pension of five hundred pounds.
עמוד 59 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to inquire; but, I believe, every man has found in physicians great liberality and dignity of sentiment, very prompt effusion of beneficence, and willingness to exert a lucrative art where there is no hope of lucre.
עמוד 296 - ... but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for; and Savage was therefore obliged to go and offer their new production to sale for two guineas, which with some difficulty he obtained.
עמוד 116 - He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
עמוד 366 - WANDERER, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.