Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 53
עמוד 17
... mind , though he did not amend his irregularities , by which he gave so much offence , that , April 24 , 1700 , the Dean and Chapter declared " the place of Mr. Smith void , he having been convicted of riotous misbehaviour in the house ...
... mind , though he did not amend his irregularities , by which he gave so much offence , that , April 24 , 1700 , the Dean and Chapter declared " the place of Mr. Smith void , he having been convicted of riotous misbehaviour in the house ...
עמוד 20
... mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . • Dennis tells , in one of his pieces , that he had once a design to have written the tragedy of " Phædra ; " but was ...
... mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . • Dennis tells , in one of his pieces , that he had once a design to have written the tragedy of " Phædra ; " but was ...
עמוד 23
... mind , that he could use or improve , he did not suffer it to be lost ; but , amidst the jollity of a tavern , or in the warmth of conversation , very diligently committed it to paper . Thus it was that he had gathered two quires of ...
... mind , that he could use or improve , he did not suffer it to be lost ; but , amidst the jollity of a tavern , or in the warmth of conversation , very diligently committed it to paper . Thus it was that he had gathered two quires of ...
עמוד 24
... mind , let me indulge myself in the remembrance . I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature pro- cured me , and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age ...
... mind , let me indulge myself in the remembrance . I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature pro- cured me , and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age ...
עמוד 25
... mind ; his belief of Revelation was un- shaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . His studies had been so various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance ...
... mind ; his belief of Revelation was un- shaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . His studies had been so various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance ...
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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.