Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 44
עמוד 4
... performances , that there arose no small con- tention between the representative electors of Trinity - college in Cambridge and Christ - church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the ...
... performances , that there arose no small con- tention between the representative electors of Trinity - college in Cambridge and Christ - church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the ...
עמוד 21
... performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of his " Pindar , " mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never ...
... performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of his " Pindar , " mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never ...
עמוד 43
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ; and the year after- wards received the last ...
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ; and the year after- wards received the last ...
עמוד 55
... performances which gratitude forbids us to blame , affection will easily dispose us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , interest adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived . The ...
... performances which gratitude forbids us to blame , affection will easily dispose us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , interest adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived . The ...
עמוד 59
... performance , that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness , and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance , exact without ...
... performance , that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness , and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance , exact without ...
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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.