Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 38
עמוד 10
... interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this de- sign was dropped , though they are very much to Mr. Smith's honour . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst ...
... interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this de- sign was dropped , though they are very much to Mr. Smith's honour . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst ...
עמוד 11
... interest , with all the elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentle- man and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to " Phædra , " she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's ...
... interest , with all the elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentle- man and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to " Phædra , " she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's ...
עמוד 20
... interest or anxiety . The sentiments thus remote from life , are removed yet further by the diction , which is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue , and envelopes the thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play ...
... interest or anxiety . The sentiments thus remote from life , are removed yet further by the diction , which is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue , and envelopes the thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play ...
עמוד 34
... interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could perform in opposition to Learning , on a question which Learning only could decide ...
... interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could perform in opposition to Learning , on a question which Learning only could decide ...
עמוד 35
... interest , forget his cares , and desert his duty . Here he wrote " Mully of Mountown , " a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than ...
... interest , forget his cares , and desert his duty . Here he wrote " Mully of Mountown , " a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than ...
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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.