Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 66
עמוד 3
... once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect . Mr. Edmund Smith was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the famous 1 William Oldisworth ...
... once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect . Mr. Edmund Smith was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the famous 1 William Oldisworth ...
עמוד 5
... 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 to excel in every art and ...
... 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 to excel in every art and ...
עמוד 8
... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin Classicks ; with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French ...
... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin Classicks ; with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French ...
עמוד 18
... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . : But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the ...
... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . : But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the ...
עמוד 20
... once a design to have written the tragedy of " Phædra ; " but was convinced that the action was too mythological . In 1709 , a year after the exhibition of “ Phædra ; " died John Philips , the friend and fellow - collegian of Smith , 1 ...
... once a design to have written the tragedy of " Phædra ; " but was convinced that the action was too mythological . In 1709 , a year after the exhibition of “ Phædra ; " died John Philips , the friend and fellow - collegian of Smith , 1 ...
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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.