Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 82
עמוד 3
... character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , ' with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show what fine things one man of parts can say of another ; and which , however , comprises great part of what can be ...
... character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , ' with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show what fine things one man of parts can say of another ; and which , however , comprises great part of what can be ...
עמוד 8
... character of unprofitable , rugged , and abstruse , which some superficial sciolists ( so very smooth and polite as to admit of no impression ) , either out of an unthinking indolence , or an ill - grounded prejudice , had affixed to ...
... character of unprofitable , rugged , and abstruse , which some superficial sciolists ( so very smooth and polite as to admit of no impression ) , either out of an unthinking indolence , or an ill - grounded prejudice , had affixed to ...
עמוד 10
... characters of celebrated men , with amazing facility and accuracy . he had thoroughly read and digested Thuanus's works , so he was able to copy after him : and his talent in this kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been ...
... characters of celebrated men , with amazing facility and accuracy . he had thoroughly read and digested Thuanus's works , so he was able to copy after him : and his talent in this kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been ...
עמוד 13
... character . A man , who , under poverty , calamities , and disappoint- ments , could make so many friends , and those so truly valuable , must have just and noble ideas of the passion of friendship , in the success of which consisted ...
... character . A man , who , under poverty , calamities , and disappoint- ments , could make so many friends , and those so truly valuable , must have just and noble ideas of the passion of friendship , in the success of which consisted ...
עמוד 14
... character grew upon his friends by intimacy , and outwent the strongest prepossessions , which had been conceived in his favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their happiness , may possibly have to the age ...
... character grew upon his friends by intimacy , and outwent the strongest prepossessions , which had been conceived in his favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their happiness , may possibly have to the age ...
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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.