Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 53
עמוד 5
... observed and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emulation grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed him upon striving ...
... observed and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emulation grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed him upon striving ...
עמוד 8
... observation of the late earl of Shaftesbury , he kept the poet in awe by regular criticism , and as it were , married the two arts for their mutual support and improvement . There was not a tract of credit , upon that subject , which he ...
... observation of the late earl of Shaftesbury , he kept the poet in awe by regular criticism , and as it were , married the two arts for their mutual support and improvement . There was not a tract of credit , upon that subject , which he ...
עמוד 11
... observed with a judicious accuracy . We saw the old rules and new beauties placed in admirable order by each other ; and there was a predominant fancy and spirit of his own in- fused , superior to what some draw off from the ancients ...
... observed with a judicious accuracy . We saw the old rules and new beauties placed in admirable order by each other ; and there was a predominant fancy and spirit of his own in- fused , superior to what some draw off from the ancients ...
עמוד 15
... observations of his own , with an entire system of the Art of Poetry , in three books , under the titles of " Thought , " " Diction , " and " Figure . " I saw the last of these perfect , and in a fair copy , in which he shewed ...
... observations of his own , with an entire system of the Art of Poetry , in three books , under the titles of " Thought , " " Diction , " and " Figure . " I saw the last of these perfect , and in a fair copy , in which he shewed ...
עמוד 23
... observed : if any thought or image was presented to his 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 ...
... observed : if any thought or image was presented to his 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 ...
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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.