Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 75
עמוד 3
... say of another ; and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better to transcribe at once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect ...
... say of another ; and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better to transcribe at once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect ...
עמוד 4
... says in his " Art of 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 ...
... says in his " Art of 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 ...
עמוד 5
... say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it dis- agreeable ; insomuch that the fair sex , who observed and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the ...
... say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it dis- agreeable ; insomuch that the fair sex , who observed and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the ...
עמוד 11
... to " Phædra , " she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin 66 Phædra , ” I need not say she surpasses SMITH . 11.
... to " Phædra , " she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin 66 Phædra , ” I need not say she surpasses SMITH . 11.
עמוד 12
... say upon that occasion , which whetted him to exceed himself as well as others . Nevertheless , he could not , or would not , finish several subjects he undertook ; which may be imputed either to the briskness of his fancy , still ...
... say upon that occasion , which whetted him to exceed himself as well as others . Nevertheless , he could not , or would not , finish several subjects he undertook ; which may be imputed either to the briskness of his fancy , still ...
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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.