Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 59
עמוד 12
... give her . No man had a juster notion of the difficulty of composing than Mr. Smith , and he sometimes would create greater difficulties than he had reason to apprehend . Writing with ease , what ( as Mr. Wycherley speaks ) may be ...
... give her . No man had a juster notion of the difficulty of composing than Mr. Smith , and he sometimes would create greater difficulties than he had reason to apprehend . Writing with ease , what ( as Mr. Wycherley speaks ) may be ...
עמוד 13
... give even his misfortunes the hard name of faults ; but if the world had half his good - nature , all the shady parts would be entirely struck out of his character . A man , who , under poverty , calamities , and disappoint- ments ...
... give even his misfortunes the hard name of faults ; but if the world had half his good - nature , all the shady parts would be entirely struck out of his character . A man , who , under poverty , calamities , and disappoint- ments ...
עמוד 17
... give to colours memory and delight . I quote it , however , as an imitation of these lines ; 66 So many languages he had in store , That only Fame shall speak of him in more . " 1 The simile , by which an old man , retaining the fire of ...
... give to colours memory and delight . I quote it , however , as an imitation of these lines ; 66 So many languages he had in store , That only Fame shall speak of him in more . " 1 The simile , by which an old man , retaining the fire of ...
עמוד 21
... 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 collected materials , he ...
... 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 collected materials , he ...
עמוד 55
... gives value to the praise which he receives , and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected us for confidence ; we admire more , in a patron ...
... gives value to the praise which he receives , and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected us for confidence ; we admire more , in a patron ...
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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.