Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 4
... Poetry , " " Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , & conjurat amice . " 1 Horace , Ars Poet . 409 . 1 He was endowed by Nature with all those excellent and 4 LIVES ...
... Poetry , " " Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , & conjurat amice . " 1 Horace , Ars Poet . 409 . 1 He was endowed by Nature with all those excellent and 4 LIVES ...
עמוד 8
... 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 had not dili- gently examined , from Aristotle down to ...
... 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 had not dili- gently examined , from Aristotle down to ...
עמוד 9
... Poetry ; according to which he judged , ap- proved , and blamed , without flattery or detraction . If he did not always commend the compositions of others , it was not ill - nature ( which was not in his temper ) but strict justice that ...
... Poetry ; according to which he judged , ap- proved , and blamed , without flattery or detraction . If he did not always commend the compositions of others , it was not ill - nature ( which was not in his temper ) but strict justice that ...
עמוד 11
... poetry he touched upon ( and he had touched upon a great variety ) , was raised to its proper height , and the differences between each of them observed with a judicious accuracy . We saw the old rules and new beauties placed in ...
... poetry he touched upon ( and he had touched upon a great variety ) , was raised to its proper height , and the differences between each of them observed with a judicious accuracy . We saw the old rules and new beauties placed in ...
עמוד 15
... poetry . Under each head and chapter , he intended to make remarks upon all the ancients and moderns , the Greek , Latin , English , French , Spanish , and Italian poets , and to note their several beauties and defects . What remains of ...
... poetry . Under each head and chapter , he intended to make remarks upon all the ancients and moderns , the Greek , Latin , English , French , Spanish , and Italian poets , and to note their several beauties and defects . What remains of ...
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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.