Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 11
... remarkable on this occasion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison espoused his interest , with all the elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentle- man and author is so justly ...
... remarkable on this occasion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison espoused his interest , with all the elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentle- man and author is so justly ...
עמוד 22
... remarkable particular , that he never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who attended to their characters . 2 The charge was afterwards very diligently refuted by ...
... remarkable particular , that he never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who attended to their characters . 2 The charge was afterwards very diligently refuted by ...
עמוד 23
... remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at ...
... remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at ...
עמוד 35
... remarkable , notwithstanding its title , for purity of sentiment ; and in 1709 imitated Horace in an " Art of Cookery , " which he published , with some letters to Dr. Lister . In 1710 he appeared , as a lover of the Church , on the ...
... remarkable , notwithstanding its title , for purity of sentiment ; and in 1709 imitated Horace in an " Art of Cookery , " which he published , with some letters to Dr. Lister . In 1710 he appeared , as a lover of the Church , on the ...
עמוד 46
... remarkable for sedi- tion , and Sprat's for loyalty . Burnet had the thanks of the house ; Sprat had no thanks , but a good living from the king ; which , he said , was of as much value as the thanks of the Commons . 995 66 994 66 2 3 ...
... remarkable for sedi- tion , and Sprat's for loyalty . Burnet had the thanks of the house ; Sprat had no thanks , but a good living from the king ; which , he said , was of as much value as the thanks of the Commons . 995 66 994 66 2 3 ...
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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.