Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 59
עמוד 35
... letters to Dr. Lister . In 1710 he appeared , as a lover of the Church , on the side of Sacheverell ; and was supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of " The Examiner . " His eyes were 1 The original tower was for ...
... letters to Dr. Lister . In 1710 he appeared , as a lover of the Church , on the side of Sacheverell ; and was supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of " The Examiner . " His eyes were 1 The original tower was for ...
עמוד 43
... Letter to Mr. Wren . " This is a work not ill performed ; but perhaps rewarded with at least its full proportion of praise . In 1668 he published Cowley's Latin poems , and pre- fixed in Latin the Life of the Author ; which he ...
... Letter to Mr. Wren . " This is a work not ill performed ; but perhaps rewarded with at least its full proportion of praise . In 1668 he published Cowley's Latin poems , and pre- fixed in Latin the Life of the Author ; which he ...
עמוד 44
... letter , they adjourned for six months , and scarcely ever met after- wards . When king James was frighted away , and a new govern- ment was to be settled , Sprat was one of those who con- sidered , in a conference , the great question ...
... letter , they adjourned for six months , and scarcely ever met after- wards . When king James was frighted away , and a new govern- ment was to be settled , Sprat was one of those who con- sidered , in a conference , the great question ...
עמוד 62
... Letters , " " 10 and supposes it to have been 66 originally Arabian . 1 Hesiod , or the Rise of Woman , first published in Tonson's Miscellany . Ald . Parnell , p . 5 . 2 A Fairy Tale . In the ancient English style . Ibid . p . 25 . 3 ...
... Letters , " " 10 and supposes it to have been 66 originally Arabian . 1 Hesiod , or the Rise of Woman , first published in Tonson's Miscellany . Ald . Parnell , p . 5 . 2 A Fairy Tale . In the ancient English style . Ibid . p . 25 . 3 ...
עמוד 81
... letter from Dennis to Rowe , dated Oct. 5th , 1715. " On his being made Surveyor at the Custom House , and his Marriage . " " You are become a hus- band , " he says , " since I saw you last , as well as a land Surveyor . Jesu ! what ...
... letter from Dennis to Rowe , dated Oct. 5th , 1715. " On his being made Surveyor at the Custom House , and his Marriage . " " You are become a hus- band , " he says , " since I saw you last , as well as a land Surveyor . Jesu ! what ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Beggar's Opera Boswell's Johnson Cato censure character College Congreve contempt court criticism CUNNINGHAM death declared died Dryden duke Dunciad earl edition elegance endeavoured English Engravings Essay excellence favour Fenton friends genius Halifax History honour Ibid imagined infr judgement Kit-Cat Club Lady letter lived London lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Magdalen College Memoir mentioned nature never Notes observed occasion opinion Oxford P. L. Simmonds passion pension performance perhaps Peter Cunningham Pharsalia play poem poet poetical poetry Pope Portrait pounds praise present Prior Prose publication published Queen Queen Anne reason received regard remarkable Savage Savage's says seems Sempronius shew shewn sometimes Spectator Steele supposed Swift Syphax Tatler Theocritus Thomas Parnell thought Tickell tion Tonson tragedy Trans Translated Tyrconnel verses virtue Whig Woodcuts write written wrote
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.