Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 35
עמוד 4
... formed upon Horace's plan ; who says in his " Art of Poetry , " " Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , & conjurat amice . " 1 Horace , Ars Poet . 409 . 1 He was ...
... formed upon Horace's plan ; who says in his " Art of Poetry , " " Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , & conjurat amice . " 1 Horace , Ars Poet . 409 . 1 He was ...
עמוד 16
... formed the highest expecta- tions . Smith took his Master's degree on the 8th of July , 1696 he therefore was probably admitted into the univer- sity in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old.1 : His reputation for literature ...
... formed the highest expecta- tions . Smith took his Master's degree on the 8th of July , 1696 he therefore was probably admitted into the univer- sity in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old.1 : His reputation for literature ...
עמוד 21
... formed his plan , and collected materials , he declared that a few months would complete his design ; and , that he might pursue his work with less frequent avocations , he was , in June 1710 , invited by Mr. George Ducket2 to his house ...
... formed his plan , and collected materials , he declared that a few months would complete his design ; and , that he might pursue his work with less frequent avocations , he was , in June 1710 , invited by Mr. George Ducket2 to his house ...
עמוד 42
... formed , as it were , by your own hands , not to entitle you to any thing which my mean- ness produces , would be not only injustice , but sacrilege . He published the same year a poem on the " Plague of Athens ; " a subject of which it ...
... formed , as it were , by your own hands , not to entitle you to any thing which my mean- ness produces , would be not only injustice , but sacrilege . He published the same year a poem on the " Plague of Athens ; " a subject of which it ...
עמוד 70
... at Shakespeare's Head , over against Katherine Street in the Strand , 1717 , folio . Dedicated to the Princess of Wales ( Queen Caroline ) , and her Portrait prefixed . ability : his notions are half - formed , and 70 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... at Shakespeare's Head , over against Katherine Street in the Strand , 1717 , folio . Dedicated to the Princess of Wales ( Queen Caroline ) , and her Portrait prefixed . ability : his notions are half - formed , and 70 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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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.