Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 23
עמוד 7
... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not forbear doing him justice as a pro- digy in both kinds . He had ...
... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not forbear doing him justice as a pro- digy in both kinds . He had ...
עמוד 19
... pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , ' hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
... pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , ' hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
עמוד 22
... pleased with the contradiction of a shopman , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham . Many ...
... pleased with the contradiction of a shopman , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham . Many ...
עמוד 83
... pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company . After the duke's death , all avenues were stopped to his preferment ; and during the rest of that reign , he passed his time with the Muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation of ...
... pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company . After the duke's death , all avenues were stopped to his preferment ; and during the rest of that reign , he passed his time with the Muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation of ...
עמוד 105
... pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spirit of unfeeling commerce , declare that he would not build an hospital for idle people ; but at last he buys land ...
... pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spirit of unfeeling commerce , declare that he would not build an hospital for idle people ; but at last he buys land ...
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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.