Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 3
... Swift wrote of him to Stella : " He is an ingenious fellow but the most confounded vain coxcomb in the world , so that I dare not let him see me , nor am acquainted with him . " - Scott's Swift , vol . iii . p . 129. His Life of Smith ...
... Swift wrote of him to Stella : " He is an ingenious fellow but the most confounded vain coxcomb in the world , so that I dare not let him see me , nor am acquainted with him . " - Scott's Swift , vol . iii . p . 129. His Life of Smith ...
עמוד 30
... Swift's " Journal . " 2 1 To Dryden's first Miscellany ( 1604 ) , he contributed a translation of Elegy V. book i . Ovid ; Three Odes of Horace ; An Idyllium of Theo- critus ; The Fifth Eclogue of Virgil and Floriana ; A Pastoral upon ...
... Swift's " Journal . " 2 1 To Dryden's first Miscellany ( 1604 ) , he contributed a translation of Elegy V. book i . Ovid ; Three Odes of Horace ; An Idyllium of Theo- critus ; The Fifth Eclogue of Virgil and Floriana ; A Pastoral upon ...
עמוד 36
... Swift , Freind , 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 ...
... Swift , Freind , 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 ...
עמוד 54
... Swift and Pope ; who forbore to flatter him in his life , and after his death spoke of him , Swift with slight censure , and Pope in the character of Bufo with acri- monious contempt . " 3 Mr. Peter Cunningham observes that he was ...
... Swift and Pope ; who forbore to flatter him in his life , and after his death spoke of him , Swift with slight censure , and Pope in the character of Bufo with acri- monious contempt . " 3 Mr. Peter Cunningham observes that he was ...
עמוד 60
... Swift , ' with his treasurer's staff in his hand , to enquire for him , and to bid him welcome ; and , as may be inferred from Pope's dedication , admitted him as a favourite companion to his convivial hours , but , as it seems often to ...
... Swift , ' with his treasurer's staff in his hand , to enquire for him , and to bid him welcome ; and , as may be inferred from Pope's dedication , admitted him as a favourite companion to his convivial hours , but , as it seems often to ...
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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.