Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 56
עמוד
... ENGLISH LITERATURE IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , AND CLARK LECTURER AT TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . VOL . II . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1890 . LELAND X UNIVER A9901 > CHISWICK PRESS - C .
... ENGLISH LITERATURE IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , AND CLARK LECTURER AT TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . VOL . II . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1890 . LELAND X UNIVER A9901 > CHISWICK PRESS - C .
עמוד 10
... English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had con- tracted a perfect friendship ; a passion he was most sus- 1 Lucretius , i . 27 . ceptible of , and whose laws he looked upon as 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had con- tracted a perfect friendship ; a passion he was most sus- 1 Lucretius , i . 27 . ceptible of , and whose laws he looked upon as 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
עמוד 11
... to " Phædra , " she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin 66 Phædra , ” I need not say she surpasses SMITH . 11.
... to " Phædra , " she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin 66 Phædra , ” I need not say she surpasses SMITH . 11.
עמוד 15
... English Pindar , " which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the " Lady Jane Grey , " and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well ...
... English Pindar , " which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the " Lady Jane Grey , " and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well ...
עמוד 21
... English History , at no great distance from our own times , which was to end in a real event , produced by the operation of known characters . A subject will not easily occur that can give more oppor- tunities of informing the ...
... English History , at no great distance from our own times , which was to end in a real event , produced by the operation of known characters . A subject will not easily occur that can give more oppor- tunities of informing the ...
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עמוד 425 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged, with variorum Notes ; including those of Guizot, Wenck, Niebuhr, Hugo, Neander, and others. 7 vols. 2 Maps and Portrait.
עמוד 427 - The only complete English translation. ROSCOE'S (W.) Life of Leo X., with Notes, Historical Documents, and Dissertation on Lucretia Borgia. 3 Portraits. 2 vOls. Lorenzo de' Medici, called ' The Magnificent,' with Copyright Notes, Poems, Letters, &c.
עמוד 25 - 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 59 - THE Life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, a,nd general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.