Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 8
... Italian ( to which languages he was no stranger ) , and in all the celebrated writers of his own country . But then , according to the curious observation of the late earl of Shaftesbury , he kept the poet in awe by regular criticism ...
... Italian ( to which languages he was no stranger ) , and in all the celebrated writers of his own country . But then , according to the curious observation of the late earl of Shaftesbury , he kept the poet in awe by regular criticism ...
עמוד 15
... Italian poets , and to note their several beauties and defects . What remains of his works is left , as I am informed , in the hands of men of worth and judgement , who loved him . It cannot be supposed they would suppress any thing ...
... Italian poets , and to note their several beauties and defects . What remains of his works is left , as I am informed , in the hands of men of worth and judgement , who loved him . It cannot be supposed they would suppress any thing ...
עמוד 82
... Italian , and Spanish Lan- guages , and spoke the first fluently , and the other two tolerably well . " He had likewise read most of the Greek and Roman histories in their original languages , and most that are wrote in English , French ...
... Italian , and Spanish Lan- guages , and spoke the first fluently , and the other two tolerably well . " He had likewise read most of the Greek and Roman histories in their original languages , and most that are wrote in English , French ...
עמוד 95
... Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his observations on the country , but found time to write his " Dialogues on Medals , " and ...
... Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his observations on the country , but found time to write his " Dialogues on Medals , " and ...
עמוד 96
... Italian authors.3 The most amusing passage of his book , is his account of the minute republick of San Marino ; of ... Italy , & c . in 1701-2-3 . Tonson . 1705. 8vo . B. Ad . vol . i . p . 356 . 3 Sec Boswell's Johnson , vol . ii . p ...
... Italian authors.3 The most amusing passage of his book , is his account of the minute republick of San Marino ; of ... Italy , & c . in 1701-2-3 . Tonson . 1705. 8vo . B. Ad . vol . i . p . 356 . 3 Sec Boswell's Johnson , vol . ii . p ...
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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.