Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 66
עמוד 4
... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near rela- tion ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to ...
... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near rela- tion ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to ...
עמוד 10
... death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings will last as long as the English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had con- tracted a ...
... death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings will last as long as the English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had con- tracted a ...
עמוד 14
... death , he had engaged him- self in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he 1 The Earl of Dorset . See Prior's Dedication of his Poems to the son of the " great Earl . " had prepared the world to expect mighty things from ...
... death , he had engaged him- self in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he 1 The Earl of Dorset . See Prior's Dedication of his Poems to the son of the " great Earl . " had prepared the world to expect mighty things from ...
עמוד 16
... death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the uni- versity . This ode , which closed the second volume of the “ Musæ He took ...
... death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the uni- versity . This ode , which closed the second volume of the “ Musæ He took ...
עמוד 17
... cary ; but it was referred to the Dean when and upon what occasion the sentence should be put in execution . " 1 From Cowley's poem , On the Death of Sir Henry Wotton . Thus tenderly was he treated : the governors of his II . C SMITH . 17.
... cary ; but it was referred to the Dean when and upon what occasion the sentence should be put in execution . " 1 From Cowley's poem , On the Death of Sir Henry Wotton . Thus tenderly was he treated : the governors of his II . C SMITH . 17.
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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.