Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 21
... Printed in folio by Lintot , but without date . 2 One of the Commissioners of Excise . Wilson's ( i.e. Oldmixon's ) , Life of Congreve ( 8vo . 1730 ) is dedicated to him.-P. CUNNINGHAM . evacuation , he wrote to an apothecary in the ...
... Printed in folio by Lintot , but without date . 2 One of the Commissioners of Excise . Wilson's ( i.e. Oldmixon's ) , Life of Congreve ( 8vo . 1730 ) is dedicated to him.-P. CUNNINGHAM . evacuation , he wrote to an apothecary in the ...
עמוד 54
... printed in Dryden's Fourth Miscellany , 8vo . 1694. Addison's Works , vol . vi . p . 27 . 3 Swift's censure of Halifax occurs in A Libel on the Rev. Dr. Delany and his Excellency John , Lord Carteret , 1729 , where he accuses him of ...
... printed in Dryden's Fourth Miscellany , 8vo . 1694. Addison's Works , vol . vi . p . 27 . 3 Swift's censure of Halifax occurs in A Libel on the Rev. Dr. Delany and his Excellency John , Lord Carteret , 1729 , where he accuses him of ...
עמוד 69
... Printed and sold by John Nutt , near Stationer's Hall , 1699 , 4to . A fifth edition was published 1703 , and a seventh , " with descriptions and Episodes , never before printed , " was published by Tonson , in 1714. 12mo . 2 The ...
... Printed and sold by John Nutt , near Stationer's Hall , 1699 , 4to . A fifth edition was published 1703 , and a seventh , " with descriptions and Episodes , never before printed , " was published by Tonson , in 1714. 12mo . 2 The ...
עמוד 70
... Printed for Jacob Tonson , at Shakespeare's Head , over against Katherine Street in the Strand , 1717 , folio . Dedicated to the Princess of Wales ( Queen Caroline ) , and her Portrait prefixed . ability : his notions are half - formed ...
... Printed for Jacob Tonson , at Shakespeare's Head , over against Katherine Street in the Strand , 1717 , folio . Dedicated to the Princess of Wales ( Queen Caroline ) , and her Portrait prefixed . ability : his notions are half - formed ...
עמוד 81
... printed under the care of Dr. Wel- wood , who prefixed the author's life , in which is contained the following character : " As to his person it was graceful and well - made ; his face regular , and of a manly beauty . As his soul was ...
... printed under the care of Dr. Wel- wood , who prefixed the author's life , in which is contained the following character : " As to his person it was graceful and well - made ; his face regular , and of a manly beauty . As his soul was ...
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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.