Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 49
עמוד 30
... Queen Anne . In 1710 , he was presented by the bishop of Winchester to the wealthy living of Witney in Oxfordshire , which he enjoyed but a few months . On February 10 , 1710-11 , having returned from an entertainment , he was found ...
... Queen Anne . In 1710 , he was presented by the bishop of Winchester to the wealthy living of Witney in Oxfordshire , which he enjoyed but a few months . On February 10 , 1710-11 , having returned from an entertainment , he was found ...
עמוד 53
... queen Anne he was dismissed from the council ; and in the first parliament of her reign was again attacked by the commons , and again escaped by the protection of the lords . In 1704 , he wrote an answer to 1 Mr. Peter Cunningham notes ...
... queen Anne he was dismissed from the council ; and in the first parliament of her reign was again attacked by the commons , and again escaped by the protection of the lords . In 1704 , he wrote an answer to 1 Mr. Peter Cunningham notes ...
עמוד 54
... queen's death he was appointed one of the re- gents ; and at the accession of George the First was made earl of Halifax , knight of the garter , and first commis- sioner of the treasury , with a grant to his nephew of the reversion of ...
... queen's death he was appointed one of the re- gents ; and at the accession of George the First was made earl of Halifax , knight of the garter , and first commis- sioner of the treasury , with a grant to his nephew of the reversion of ...
עמוד 60
... queen Anne's reign , Parnell was persuaded to change his party , not with- out much censure from those whom he forsook , and was received by the new ministry as a valuable reinforcement . When the earl of Oxford was told that Dr ...
... queen Anne's reign , Parnell was persuaded to change his party , not with- out much censure from those whom he forsook , and was received by the new ministry as a valuable reinforcement . When the earl of Oxford was told that Dr ...
עמוד 70
... , over against Katherine Street in the Strand , 1717 , folio . Dedicated to the Princess of Wales ( Queen Caroline ) , and her Portrait prefixed . ability : his notions are half - formed , and 70 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , over against Katherine Street in the Strand , 1717 , folio . Dedicated to the Princess of Wales ( Queen Caroline ) , and her Portrait prefixed . ability : his notions are half - formed , and 70 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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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.