Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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... criticism , and as it were , married the two arts for their mutual support and improvement . There was not a tract of credit , upon that subject , which he had not dili- gently examined , from Aristotle down to Hedelin and Bossû ; so ...
... criticism , and as it were , married the two arts for their mutual support and improvement . There was not a tract of credit , upon that subject , which he had not dili- gently examined , from Aristotle down to Hedelin and Bossû ; so ...
עמוד 23
... criticism , and by a cursory glance over a new composition would exactly tell all its faults and beauties . He was remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily ...
... criticism , and by a cursory glance over a new composition would exactly tell all its faults and beauties . He was remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily ...
עמוד 24
... and gave him introduc- tions when he first went up to London . Boswell's Johnson , vol . i . pp . 46 , 58. And for his criticism of Irene , ibid . p . 65 . a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... and gave him introduc- tions when he first went up to London . Boswell's Johnson , vol . i . pp . 46 , 58. And for his criticism of Irene , ibid . p . 65 . a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
עמוד 61
... , on the 18th October , 1718 . 3 Poems on Several Occasions . Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell , late Archdeacon of Clogher , and published by Mr. Pope . Lintot , 1722 . and his criticism it is seldom safe to contradict . PARNELL . 61.
... , on the 18th October , 1718 . 3 Poems on Several Occasions . Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell , late Archdeacon of Clogher , and published by Mr. Pope . Lintot , 1722 . and his criticism it is seldom safe to contradict . PARNELL . 61.
עמוד 62
Samuel Johnson. and his criticism it is seldom safe to contradict . He bestows / " the " Fairy 66 2 175 774 just praise upon the " Rise of Woman , ' Tale , " and the " Pervigilium Veneris ; " but has very properly remarked , that in the ...
Samuel Johnson. and his criticism it is seldom safe to contradict . He bestows / " the " Fairy 66 2 175 774 just praise upon the " Rise of Woman , ' Tale , " and the " Pervigilium Veneris ; " but has very properly remarked , that in the ...
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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.