Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... public trial . Swift said of this letter to Stella , February 1st , 1712 , " " Tis finely written , I assure you . " S. S. vol . iv . pp . 81-98 . Forster , p . 358 . lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as III . C SWIFT .
... public trial . Swift said of this letter to Stella , February 1st , 1712 , " " Tis finely written , I assure you . " S. S. vol . iv . pp . 81-98 . Forster , p . 358 . lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as III . C SWIFT .
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... public ; but the prudential fears of his friends probably interfered to prevent its then seeing the light . In 1758 , a nameless editor of opposite political principles gave the volume to the press , with a preface , in which he ...
... public ; but the prudential fears of his friends probably interfered to prevent its then seeing the light . In 1758 , a nameless editor of opposite political principles gave the volume to the press , with a preface , in which he ...
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... public convenience , offensive only , as so many Irish measures have been , in the way in which it was enforced . Ireland was already paying a large pension to the so - called Duchess of Munster ( Lady Kendal ) , and that the profits of ...
... public convenience , offensive only , as so many Irish measures have been , in the way in which it was enforced . Ireland was already paying a large pension to the so - called Duchess of Munster ( Lady Kendal ) , and that the profits of ...
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... public to swell his volume with verses taken from a work that is in the hands of almost every reader . " And in the Preface to the same volume , he describes himself , p . xii . , as “ the Annotator , in part upon the Iliad , and ...
... public to swell his volume with verses taken from a work that is in the hands of almost every reader . " And in the Preface to the same volume , he describes himself , p . xii . , as “ the Annotator , in part upon the Iliad , and ...
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... public road , described by Pope as- " A little house with trees a row , And like its master , very low . " The house has been rebuilt , but Pope's study is preserved . 2 The improbability of this story is insisted on by Mr. Caruthers ...
... public road , described by Pope as- " A little house with trees a row , And like its master , very low . " The house has been rebuilt , but Pope's study is preserved . 2 The improbability of this story is insisted on by Mr. Caruthers ...
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Addison afterwards Akenside Ambrose Philips appeared beauties blank verse Bolingbroke Boswell's Johnson called censure character Cibber criticism CUNNINGHAM death delight diction died diligence Dryden Dunciad edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence father favour Forster friendship genius History Homer honour Ibid Iliad imitation Ireland kind King labour Lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Ludovico Ariosto Lyttelton Mallet Memoir mind Miscellanies nature never Night Thoughts Notes numbers original perhaps Philips Pindar pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's Portrait praise printed prose publick published reader reason remarks rhyme S. S. vol satire says Scriblerus Club seems shew sometimes soon supposed supr Swift tell Thomson tion told Trans translation verses volume Walpole Warburton Woodcuts write written wrote Young
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Stran 165 - When Ajax strives — the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; " when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet
Stran 400 - SMITH'S (Adam) Theory of Moral Sentiments ; with Essay on the First Formation of Languages, and Critical Memoir by Dugald Stewart. SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectores on Modern History ; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Lectures on the French Revolution. With Index. 2 vols. SOUTHEY—See
Stran 405 - Letters. By R. Carruthers. Numerous Illustrations. POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, and other objects of Vertu. Comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection, with the prices and names of the Possessors. Also an Introductory Lecture on Pottery and Porcelain, and an Engraved List of all Marks and Monograms. By HG Bohn. Numerous Woodcuts. - With coloured Illustrations, iof.
Stran 193 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Stran 407 - On Oratory and Orators. With Letters to Quintus and Brutus. Trans., with Notes, by Rev. JS Watson, MA On the Nature of the Gods, Divination, Fate, Laws, a Republic, Consulship. Trans., with Notes, by CD Yonge, — Academics, De Finibus, and Tusculan Questions. By CD Yonge, BA With Sketch of the Greek Philosophers mentioned by Cicero. CICERO'S
Stran 402 - DCL BOETHIUS'S Consolation of Philosophy, King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of. With an English Translation on opposite pages, Notes, Introduction, and Glossary, by Rev. S. Fox, MA To which is added the Anglo-Saxon Version of the METRES OF BOETHIUS, with a free Translation by Martin F. Tupper, DCL CHRONICLES Of the CRUSADES. Contemporary Narratives of Richard
Stran 410 - ENNEMOSEK'S History of Magic. Trans, by W. Howitt. With an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Table-Turning, and SpiritRapping, &c. 2 vols. HIND'S Introduction to Astronomy. With Vocabulary of the Terms in present. use. Numerous Woodcuts. 3^. 6d. HOGG'S (Jabez) Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy. Being
Stran 397 - Carni. 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. GOETHE'S Works. Trans, into English by EA Bowring, CB, Anna Swanwick, Sir Walter Scott, &c. &c. 13 vols. Vols. I. and_
Stran 410 - on Colour. Containing the Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and their Application to the Arts ; including Painting, Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, Mosaics, Glazing, Staining, Calico Printing, Letterpress Printing, Map Colouring, Dress, Landscape and Flower Gardening, &c. Trans. by C. Martel. Several Plates. —— With an additional series of 16 Plates in Colours,
Stran 396 - with Two Lay Sermons. Literary ; to which is added, THE THEORY OF LIFE. Collected and arranged by T. Ashe, BA Miscellanies, Esthetic and COMMINES.—See Philip. CONDÉ'S History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain. Trans, by Mrs. Foster. Portrait of Abderahmen ben Moavia. 3 vols. COWPER'S Complete Works, Poems,