Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 45
עמוד 21
... produced by the operation of known characters . A subject will not easily occur that can give more oppor- tunities of informing the understanding , for which Smith was unquestionably qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I ...
... produced by the operation of known characters . A subject will not easily occur that can give more oppor- tunities of informing the understanding , for which Smith was unquestionably qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I ...
עמוד 23
... of pleasure ; but his dress was always de- ficient : scholastick cloudiness still hung about him ; and his merriment was sure to produce the scorn of his companions . With all his carelessness , and all his vices , SMITH . 23.
... of pleasure ; but his dress was always de- ficient : scholastick cloudiness still hung about him ; and his merriment was sure to produce the scorn of his companions . With all his carelessness , and all his vices , SMITH . 23.
עמוד 36
... produced without the powers of King . The same year he published " Rufinus , ” an his- torical essay , and a poem , intended to dispose the nation to think as he thought of the duke of Marlborough and his adherents . In 1711 ...
... produced without the powers of King . The same year he published " Rufinus , ” an his- torical essay , and a poem , intended to dispose the nation to think as he thought of the duke of Marlborough and his adherents . In 1711 ...
עמוד 42
... produces , would be not only injustice , but sacrilege . He published the same year a poem on the " Plague of Athens ... produced the Royal Society , ' he was consequently engaged in the same studies , and became one of the fellows ; and ...
... produces , would be not only injustice , but sacrilege . He published the same year a poem on the " Plague of Athens ... produced the Royal Society , ' he was consequently engaged in the same studies , and became one of the fellows ; and ...
עמוד 76
... produced " The Ambitious Stepmother , " which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature . ' His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was " Tamerlane , " in which , under the name of ...
... produced " The Ambitious Stepmother , " which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature . ' His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was " Tamerlane , " in which , under the name 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.