Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 87
עמוד 8
... poem , and at once point out the graces and deformities . By this means he seemed to read with a design to correct , as well as imitate . Being thus prepared , he could not but taste every little delicacy that was set before him ...
... poem , and at once point out the graces and deformities . By this means he seemed to read with a design to correct , as well as imitate . Being thus prepared , he could not but taste every little delicacy that was set before him ...
עמוד 17
... ; but it was referred to the Dean when and upon what occasion the sentence should be put in execution . " 1 From Cowley's poem , On the Death of Sir Henry Wotton . Thus tenderly was he treated : the governors of his II . C SMITH . 17.
... ; but it was referred to the Dean when and upon what occasion the sentence should be put in execution . " 1 From Cowley's poem , On the Death of Sir Henry Wotton . Thus tenderly was he treated : the governors of his II . C SMITH . 17.
עמוד 20
... of Smith , 1 No. 18 . 2 2 John Phillips did not matriculate till 1697 , the year after Smith took his M.A. degree , so that they were scarcely fellow - collegians . who , on that occasion , wrote a poem , 20 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... of Smith , 1 No. 18 . 2 2 John Phillips did not matriculate till 1697 , the year after Smith took his M.A. degree , so that they were scarcely fellow - collegians . who , on that occasion , wrote a poem , 20 LIVES OF THE POETS .
עמוד 21
... poem . Of his " Pindar , " mentioned by Oldisworth , I have 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 ...
... poem . Of his " Pindar , " mentioned by Oldisworth , I have 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 ...
עמוד 29
... poems are not below mediocrity ; nor have I found much in them to be praised . With the Wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times ; for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with ... poem on the.
... poems are not below mediocrity ; nor have I found much in them to be praised . With the Wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times ; for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with ... poem on the.
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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.