Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 78
... savage Saxon , talks of Venus , and the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter . This play discovers its own date , by a prediction of the Union , in imitation of Cranmer's prophetick promises to Henry the Eighth . The anticipated ...
... savage Saxon , talks of Venus , and the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter . This play discovers its own date , by a prediction of the Union , in imitation of Cranmer's prophetick promises to Henry the Eighth . The anticipated ...
עמוד 90
... savage license , prac- tised in many schools to the end of the last century , by which the boys , when the periodical vacation drew near , growing petulant at the approach of liberty , some days before the time of regular recess , took ...
... savage license , prac- tised in many schools to the end of the last century , by which the boys , when the periodical vacation drew near , growing petulant at the approach of liberty , some days before the time of regular recess , took ...
עמוד 315
Samuel Johnson. I ' SAVAGE . T has been observed in all ages , that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splen- dour of their rank , or the extent of ...
Samuel Johnson. I ' SAVAGE . T has been observed in all ages , that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splen- dour of their rank , or the extent of ...
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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 ROSCOE'S (W.) Life of Leo X., with Notes, Historical Documents, and Dissertation on Lucretia Borgia. 3 Portraits. 2 vOls.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.