Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 39
עמוד 5
... easily took in and surmounted the most subtle and knotty parts of mathematicks and metaphy- sicks . His wit was prompt and flowing , yet solid and piercing ; his taste delicate , his head clear , and his way of expressing his thoughts ...
... easily took in and surmounted the most subtle and knotty parts of mathematicks and metaphy- sicks . His wit was prompt and flowing , yet solid and piercing ; his taste delicate , his head clear , and his way of expressing his thoughts ...
עמוד 12
... easily written , moved his indignation . When he was writing upon a sub- ject , he would seriously consider what Demosthenes , Homer , Virgil , or Horace , if alive , would say upon that occasion , which whetted him to exceed himself as ...
... easily written , moved his indignation . When he was writing upon a sub- ject , he would seriously consider what Demosthenes , Homer , Virgil , or Horace , if alive , would say upon that occasion , which whetted him to exceed himself as ...
עמוד 14
... easily forgave him all other differences . Hence it was that both his ac- quaintance and retirements were his own free choice . What Mr. Prior observes upon a very great character , 1 was true of him ; that most of his faults brought ...
... easily forgave him all other differences . Hence it was that both his ac- quaintance and retirements were his own free choice . What Mr. Prior observes upon a very great character , 1 was true of him ; that most of his faults brought ...
עמוד 21
... easily occur that can give more oppor- tunities of informing the understanding , for which Smith was unquestionably qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I suspect him to have had less power . Having formed his plan , and ...
... easily occur that can give more oppor- tunities of informing the understanding , for which Smith was unquestionably qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I suspect him to have had less power . Having formed his plan , and ...
עמוד 23
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours of ...
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours of ...
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קטעים בולטים
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.