Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 68
עמוד 18
... appearance of decency ; in his own phrase , he whitened himself , having a desire to obtain the censorship , an office of ... appeared not to know it . He was now driven to London , where he associated him- self with the Whigs , whether ...
... appearance of decency ; in his own phrase , he whitened himself , having a desire to obtain the censorship , an office of ... appeared not to know it . He was now driven to London , where he associated him- self with the Whigs , whether ...
עמוד 35
... appeared , as a lover of the Church , on the side of Sacheverell ; and was supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of " The Examiner . " His eyes were 1 The original tower was for centuries used as a state prison , like ...
... appeared , as a lover of the Church , on the side of Sacheverell ; and was supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of " The Examiner . " His eyes were 1 The original tower was for centuries used as a state prison , like ...
עמוד 45
... appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713.2 Burnet is not very favourable to his memory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On some public occasion they both preached ...
... appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713.2 Burnet is not very favourable to his memory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On some public occasion they both preached ...
עמוד 53
... appeared how much the pre- sence of that assembly could disconcert one of their own body . " 1 After this he rose fast into honours and employments , being made one of the commissioners of the treasury , and called to the privy council ...
... appeared how much the pre- sence of that assembly could disconcert one of their own body . " 1 After this he rose fast into honours and employments , being made one of the commissioners of the treasury , and called to the privy council ...
עמוד 63
... appearance of elaboration in the " Hermit , " the narrative , as it is less airy , is less pleasing . Of his other compositions it is impossible to say whether they are the productions of Nature , so excellent as not to want the help of ...
... appearance of elaboration in the " Hermit , " the narrative , as it is less airy , is less pleasing . Of his other compositions it is impossible to say whether they are the productions of Nature , so excellent as not to want the help 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.