Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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עמוד 4
... sent for by his mother to Worcester , and owned and acknowledged as her legitimate son ; which had not been mentioned , but to wipe off the aspersions that were ignorantly cast by some on his birth . It is to be remembered for our ...
... sent for by his mother to Worcester , and owned and acknowledged as her legitimate son ; which had not been mentioned , but to wipe off the aspersions that were ignorantly cast by some on his birth . It is to be remembered for our ...
עמוד 15
... sent lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . His greatest and noblest undertaking was " Longinus . " He had finished an entire ...
... sent lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . His greatest and noblest undertaking was " Longinus . " He had finished an entire ...
עמוד 25
... pupil at Edial , and accompanied Johnson on his first visit to London in 1736 , with fourpence in their pockets between them . Bos- well's Johnson , vol . i . p . 66 , et seq . EX AUTOGRAPHO . [ Sent by the Author to Mr. SMITH . 25.
... pupil at Edial , and accompanied Johnson on his first visit to London in 1736 , with fourpence in their pockets between them . Bos- well's Johnson , vol . i . p . 66 , et seq . EX AUTOGRAPHO . [ Sent by the Author to Mr. SMITH . 25.
עמוד 26
Samuel Johnson. EX AUTOGRAPHO . [ Sent by the Author to Mr. Urry . ' ] Opusculum hoc , Halberdarie amplissime , in lucem pro- ferre hactenus distuli , judicii tui acumen subveritus magis quam bipennis . Tandem aliquando Oden hanc ad te ...
Samuel Johnson. EX AUTOGRAPHO . [ Sent by the Author to Mr. Urry . ' ] Opusculum hoc , Halberdarie amplissime , in lucem pro- ferre hactenus distuli , judicii tui acumen subveritus magis quam bipennis . Tandem aliquando Oden hanc ad te ...
עמוד 35
... sent to govern Ireland , King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit ; and published some essays called " Useful Transactions . " His " Voyage to the Island of Cajamai " is particularly commended . He then ...
... sent to govern Ireland , King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit ; and published some essays called " Useful Transactions . " His " Voyage to the Island of Cajamai " is particularly commended . He then ...
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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.