Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 49
עמוד 19
... called down by the waiter ; and , having staid some time below , came up thoughtful . After a pause , said he to his friend , " He that wanted me below was Addison , whose business was to tell me that a History of the Revolution was ...
... called down by the waiter ; and , having staid some time below , came up thoughtful . After a pause , said he to his friend , " He that wanted me below was Addison , whose business was to tell me that a History of the Revolution was ...
עמוד 35
... called Mountown , near Dublin , to which King frequently retired ; delighting to neglect his interest , forget his cares , and desert his duty . Here he wrote " Mully of Mountown , " a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the ...
... called Mountown , near Dublin , to which King frequently retired ; delighting to neglect his interest , forget his cares , and desert his duty . Here he wrote " Mully of Mountown , " a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the ...
עמוד 53
... called as criminals before a court of justice , when it 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 ...
... called as criminals before a court of justice , when it 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 ...
עמוד 69
... called an imitation of the Lutrin . The subject , which is a quarrel between the physicians and apothecaries of London , may vie with that of Boileau in want of general interest , yet it seems to afford more diversity to the satirical ...
... called an imitation of the Lutrin . The subject , which is a quarrel between the physicians and apothecaries of London , may vie with that of Boileau in want of general interest , yet it seems to afford more diversity to the satirical ...
עמוד 70
... called the Harveian Oration ; " which the authors of the “ Biogra- phia " mention with more praise than the passage quoted in their notes will fully justify . Garth , speaking of the mischiefs done by quacks , has these expressions ...
... called the Harveian Oration ; " which the authors of the “ Biogra- phia " mention with more praise than the passage quoted in their notes will fully justify . Garth , speaking of the mischiefs done by quacks , has these expressions ...
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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.