Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III, Količina 2Baudry's European Library, 1846 - 301 strani |
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... original , his verses or mine . " On his return to Lichfield he found his father's affairs in a state of hopeless insolvency ; and before the end of the year ( 1731 ) he died . A few months more were spent in the place ; and he fre ...
... original , his verses or mine . " On his return to Lichfield he found his father's affairs in a state of hopeless insolvency ; and before the end of the year ( 1731 ) he died . A few months more were spent in the place ; and he fre ...
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... original communications made by the speakers themselves . The style of the whole is plainly Johnson's own , and so was by far the greater part of the matter . The supposed speech of Lord Chatham , in answer to Horatio Walpole's attack ...
... original communications made by the speakers themselves . The style of the whole is plainly Johnson's own , and so was by far the greater part of the matter . The supposed speech of Lord Chatham , in answer to Horatio Walpole's attack ...
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... original rights , overturn a corrupt political system . " The misgovernment of Ire- land he equally felt with the Colonial Slave system itself . " Let the authority of the English Government perish , " he exclaimed , " rather than be ...
... original rights , overturn a corrupt political system . " The misgovernment of Ire- land he equally felt with the Colonial Slave system itself . " Let the authority of the English Government perish , " he exclaimed , " rather than be ...
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... original . The boldness with which his many critical objections were offered , deserves not the less praise that Shakspeare's numberless and gross faults are easy to discern ; because , in presence of the multitude , one might say ...
... original . The boldness with which his many critical objections were offered , deserves not the less praise that Shakspeare's numberless and gross faults are easy to discern ; because , in presence of the multitude , one might say ...
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... original verse doing no more than furnishing a peg whereon to hang the imitation , and often not even that , and a line and a half of Latin being in one place the only excuse for sixteen of English . But if we leave on one side the ...
... original verse doing no more than furnishing a peg whereon to hang the imitation , and often not even that , and a line and a half of Latin being in one place the only excuse for sixteen of English . But if we leave on one side the ...
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Stran 162 - summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was
Stran 162 - on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several
Stran 3 - find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues Here are no Hottentots without religious piety or articulable language, no Chinese perfectly polite
Stran 31 - to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden;
Stran 3 - human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Stran 169 - Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises, by condescending once or twice in the course of the evening to talk with me. The great historian was light and playful,
Stran 235 - was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had given an indirect solution of the problem concerning the Precession ; the Nutation had only been by
Stran 156 - Yet listen to his moan over the want of that sovereign authority which a social position exercises, but so as to make its service perfect freedom compared with the slavery of nullity and ennui. " While so many of my acquaintance were married, or in Parliament, or advancing with a rapid step in the various roads
Stran 169 - Johnson. Their manners and tastes, both in writing and conversation, were as different as their habiliments. On the day I first sat down with Johnson, in his rusty brown suit, and his black worsted stockings. Gibbon was placed opposite to me in a suit of flowered velvet, with a
Stran 22 - amidst the murmurs of envy and the gratulations of applause; attended from pleasure to pleasure by the great, the sprightly, and the vain; their regard solicited by the obsequiousness of gallantry, the gayety of wit, and the timidity of love;'