Johnson's Lives of the Poets, כרך 2George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 46
עמוד 15
... sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . His greatest and noblest undertaking was " Longinus . " He had finished an entire translation of the " Sublime , " which he sent to the reverend Mr. Richard Parker , a friend of his ...
... sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . His greatest and noblest undertaking was " Longinus . " He had finished an entire translation of the " Sublime , " which he sent to the reverend Mr. Richard Parker , a friend of his ...
עמוד 16
... sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the uni- versity . This ode , which ...
... sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the uni- versity . This ode , which ...
עמוד 19
... sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty ; and Halifax , the general patron , accepted the dedication . Smith's indolence kept ...
... sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty ; and Halifax , the general patron , accepted the dedication . Smith's indolence kept ...
עמוד 68
... sufficient to bring a testimonial from a clergyman officiating in the parish where the patient resided . After a year's experience , the physicians found their charity frustrated by some malignant opposition , and made to a great degree ...
... sufficient to bring a testimonial from a clergyman officiating in the parish where the patient resided . After a year's experience , the physicians found their charity frustrated by some malignant opposition , and made to a great degree ...
עמוד 76
... sufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Middle Temple , where for some time he read statutes and reports with proficiency proportionate to the force of his mind , which was already such that he ...
... sufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Middle Temple , where for some time he read statutes and reports with proficiency proportionate to the force of his mind , which was already such that he ...
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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.