Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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... considered as the opponent of his claim . Of his lampoon upon him , I once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . : But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him he was endured , with all his ...
... considered as the opponent of his claim . Of his lampoon upon him , I once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . : But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him he was endured , with all his ...
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... considered , like those of Scaliger , as worthy of preservation . He had great readiness and exactness of criticism , and by a cursory glance over a new composition would exactly tell all its faults and beauties . He was remarkable for ...
... considered , like those of Scaliger , as worthy of preservation . He had great readiness and exactness of criticism , and by a cursory glance over a new composition would exactly tell all its faults and beauties . He was remarkable for ...
עמוד 46
... , 12mo . 5 A true Account of the Rye House Plot . 1685 , fol . For Macaulay's account of Sprat , see Hist . Eng . vol . ii . p . 95 , ninth ed . 4 My business is only with his poems . He considered 46 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , 12mo . 5 A true Account of the Rye House Plot . 1685 , fol . For Macaulay's account of Sprat , see Hist . Eng . vol . ii . p . 95 , ninth ed . 4 My business is only with his poems . He considered 46 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Samuel Johnson. My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but Pinda- rick liberty was to be expected . There is in his few ...
Samuel Johnson. My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but Pinda- rick liberty was to be expected . There is in his few ...
עמוד 68
... considered as poor . This likewise was granted by the College . It was then considered who should distribute the medi- cines , and who should settle their prices . The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation ...
... considered as poor . This likewise was granted by the College . It was then considered who should distribute the medi- cines , and who should settle their prices . The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation ...
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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.