Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 68
עמוד 9
... Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's Lusory or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a master- piece but Mr. Smith's : Pocockius " is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most ...
... Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's Lusory or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a master- piece but Mr. Smith's : Pocockius " is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most ...
עמוד 19
... lord Sunderland ? and Addison imme- diately returned , When , Rag , were you drunk last ? and went away . " Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford by his negligence of dress . This story I heard from the late Mr. Clark of ...
... lord Sunderland ? and Addison imme- diately returned , When , Rag , were you drunk last ? and went away . " Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford by his negligence of dress . This story I heard from the late Mr. Clark of ...
עמוד 34
... Lord , Viscount Moles- worth . 1694 , 8vo . 2 Animadversions on a Pretended Account of Denmark , by Dr. Will . King , of Ch . Ch . , Oxford . Lond . 1694 , 8vo . had now lessened his revenues ; and he was willing 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... Lord , Viscount Moles- worth . 1694 , 8vo . 2 Animadversions on a Pretended Account of Denmark , by Dr. Will . King , of Ch . Ch . , Oxford . Lond . 1694 , 8vo . had now lessened his revenues ; and he was willing 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
עמוד 35
... Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland , King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit ; and published some essays called " Useful Transactions . " His " Voyage to the Island of Cajamai " is particularly ...
... Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland , King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit ; and published some essays called " Useful Transactions . " His " Voyage to the Island of Cajamai " is particularly ...
עמוד 44
... lords , and other commissioners , a formal profession of his unwillingness to exercise that authority any longer , and withdrew himself from them . After they had read his letter , they adjourned for six months , and scarcely ever met ...
... lords , and other commissioners , a formal profession of his unwillingness to exercise that authority any longer , and withdrew himself from them . After they had read his letter , they adjourned for six months , and scarcely ever met ...
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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.