Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 36
עמוד
... - 65 73 87 155 SHEFFIELD , BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 163 - PRIOR 173 CONGREVE 203 BLACKMORE 221 FENTON 243 GAY : GRANVILLE YALDEN TICKELL • • HAMMOND . SOMERVILE - SAVAGE 255 273 · 285 293 301 307 313 ! SMITH . LIVES OF THE POETS . SMYTH . DMUND.
... - 65 73 87 155 SHEFFIELD , BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 163 - PRIOR 173 CONGREVE 203 BLACKMORE 221 FENTON 243 GAY : GRANVILLE YALDEN TICKELL • • HAMMOND . SOMERVILE - SAVAGE 255 273 · 285 293 301 307 313 ! SMITH . LIVES OF THE POETS . SMYTH . DMUND.
עמוד 14
... Prior observes upon a very great character , 1 was true of him ; that most of his faults brought their excuse with them . Those who blamed him most , understood him least it being the custom of the vulgar to charge an excess upon the ...
... Prior observes upon a very great character , 1 was true of him ; that most of his faults brought their excuse with them . Those who blamed him most , understood him least it being the custom of the vulgar to charge an excess upon the ...
עמוד 24
... Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation with Gilbert Walmsley , ' late register of the ...
... Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation with Gilbert Walmsley , ' late register of the ...
עמוד 36
... Prior , and other men of the same party , brought him the key of the gazetteer's office . He was now again placed in a profitable employment , and again threw the benefit away . An Act of Insolvency made his business at that time ...
... Prior , and other men of the same party , brought him the key of the gazetteer's office . He was now again placed in a profitable employment , and again threw the benefit away . An Act of Insolvency made his business at that time ...
עמוד 52
... Prior in the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " a burlesque of Dryden's “ Hind and Panther . " He signed the invitation to the Prince of Orange , and sat in the convention . He about the same time married the countess dowager of ...
... Prior in the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " a burlesque of Dryden's “ Hind and Panther . " He signed the invitation to the Prince of Orange , and sat in the convention . He about the same time married the countess dowager of ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Beggar's Opera Boswell's Johnson Cato censure character College Congreve contempt court criticism CUNNINGHAM death declared died Dryden duke Dunciad earl edition elegance endeavoured English Engravings Essay excellence favour Fenton friends genius Halifax History honour Ibid imagined infr judgement Kit-Cat Club Lady letter lived London lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Magdalen College Memoir mentioned nature never Notes observed occasion opinion Oxford P. L. Simmonds passion pension performance perhaps Peter Cunningham Pharsalia play poem poet poetical poetry Pope Portrait pounds praise present Prior Prose publication published Queen Queen Anne reason received regard remarkable Savage Savage's says seems Sempronius shew shewn sometimes Spectator Steele supposed Swift Syphax Tatler Theocritus Thomas Parnell thought Tickell tion Tonson tragedy Trans Translated Tyrconnel verses virtue Whig Woodcuts write written wrote
קטעים בולטים
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.