The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, כרך 3 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 5
עמוד 58
... contending with no rival , neither foliciting fattery by publick commendations ,
nor proyoking enmity by malignant criticism , but passing his time among the
great and splendid , in the placid enjoyment of his fame and fortune , Having
owed his ...
... contending with no rival , neither foliciting fattery by publick commendations ,
nor proyoking enmity by malignant criticism , but passing his time among the
great and splendid , in the placid enjoyment of his fame and fortune , Having
owed his ...
עמוד 221
... has enabled him to rise for a short time above his miseries , plunges him again
into his former distress ? The kindness of his friends not affording him any
constant supply , and the prospect of improving improving his fortune by
enlarging his ...
... has enabled him to rise for a short time above his miseries , plunges him again
into his former distress ? The kindness of his friends not affording him any
constant supply , and the prospect of improving improving his fortune by
enlarging his ...
עמוד 250
Men willingly pay to fortune that regard which they owe to merit , and are pleased
when they have an opportunity at once of gratifying their vanity , and practising
their duty , This interval of prosperity furnished him with opportunities of enlarging
...
Men willingly pay to fortune that regard which they owe to merit , and are pleased
when they have an opportunity at once of gratifying their vanity , and practising
their duty , This interval of prosperity furnished him with opportunities of enlarging
...
עמוד 275
-inclinations , and whom he nevertheless set at defiance , and was continually
irritating by negligence or encroachments . Examples need not be sought at any
great distance to prove , that superiority of fortune has a natural tendency to
kindle ...
-inclinations , and whom he nevertheless set at defiance , and was continually
irritating by negligence or encroachments . Examples need not be sought at any
great distance to prove , that superiority of fortune has a natural tendency to
kindle ...
עמוד 324
He formed schemes of the same kind with regard to knowledge and to fortune ,
and flattered himself with advances to be made in science , as with riches , to be
enjoyed in some distant period of his life . For the acquisition of knowledge he
was ...
He formed schemes of the same kind with regard to knowledge and to fortune ,
and flattered himself with advances to be made in science , as with riches , to be
enjoyed in some distant period of his life . For the acquisition of knowledge he
was ...
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לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
able afterwards againſt allowed appeared attention becauſe believe called character common conduct conſidered continued converſation court death deſign deſire diſcovered eaſily effect endeavoured equal excellence expected favour firſt fome formed fortune friends gave give given hand himſelf honour hope houſe imagined kind King known laſt leaſt leſs letter lines lived longer Lord manner means ment mentioned mind moſt mother muſt nature never obſerved obtained occaſion once opinion performance perhaps perſon play pleaſed pleaſure poem poet Pope pounds praiſe preſent Prior produced promiſe publiſhed Queen reaſon received regard retired returned ſaid ſame Savage ſays ſeems ſent ſhe ſhould ſome ſometimes ſtill ſuch ſuffered ſupport ſuppoſed Swift theſe thing thoſe thought tion told took treated uſe verſes virtue whoſe write written wrote
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 212 - Richard, with an air of the utmost importance, to come very early to his house the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promised, found the chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to...
עמוד 442 - But if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drank with me.
עמוד 213 - Savage then imagined his task over, and expected that Sir Richard would call for the reckoning, and return home; 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...
עמוד 442 - Ay, any one that did not know so well as I do might believe you. But since you are come, I must get some supper for you, I suppose.
עמוד 63 - He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished with -beauty and enlarged with majesty.
עמוד 223 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident.
עמוד 131 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. — When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
עמוד 176 - I assured him that I did not at all take it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to...
עמוד 175 - Button's coffee-house, where I used to see him almost every day — On his meeting me there one day in particular, he took me aside, and said he should be glad to dine with me, at such a tavern, if I staid till those people were gone (Budgell and Philips).
עמוד 450 - They are often humorous, almost always light, and have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs...
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, כרך 3 The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, Samuel Johnson |
| מאת | Samuel Johnson |
| מפורסם | 1781 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת אוקספורד |
| דיגיטלי | 19 יוני 2007 |
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