Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 81
עמוד 5
... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was , that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions ...
... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was , that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions ...
עמוד 6
... never in such esteem , either for elegy or congratulation , as when he contributed most largely to them ; and it was natural for those who knew his peculiar way of writing , to turn to his share in the work , as by far the most ...
... never in such esteem , either for elegy or congratulation , as when he contributed most largely to them ; and it was natural for those who knew his peculiar way of writing , to turn to his share in the work , as by far the most ...
עמוד 13
... reproach he ever brought upon his friends . He could say , as Horace did of himself , what I never yet saw translated ; 66 -Meo sum pauper in ære . ' 1 Horace , Epist . II . 2. 12 . 99 1 At his coming to town , no man was more SMITH . 13.
... reproach he ever brought upon his friends . He could say , as Horace did of himself , what I never yet saw translated ; 66 -Meo sum pauper in ære . ' 1 Horace , Epist . II . 2. 12 . 99 1 At his coming to town , no man was more SMITH . 13.
עמוד 14
... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of man- kind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . : Some few years before his death ...
... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of man- kind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . : Some few years before his death ...
עמוד 21
... never otherwise heard . His " Longinus " he intended to accom- pany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false Sublime " from the works of Blackmore . 66 He resolved to try again the fortune of the Stage ...
... never otherwise heard . His " Longinus " he intended to accom- pany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false Sublime " from the works of Blackmore . 66 He resolved to try again the fortune of the Stage ...
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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.