...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...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. What such an author has told, who would tell again? I have made an abstract from his larger narrative...

...solidly esteemed. — His literary character is compressed by Dr. Johnson in the following terms. " Goldsmith was a man of such variety of powers, and...doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousnew, and general without confusion : whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without...

...PARNELL is a task which I would very willingly decline, siuce it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...language was copious without exuberance ; exact without constrain^, and easy without weakness. "Wliut such an author has told, who would tell again! I have...

...G. was a man of such variety of powers, and of such t'eHcity of performance, as Johnson also states, that he always seemed to do best that which he was...doing; a man, who had the art of being minute: without tcdiousncss, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without...

...of a mind endowed with virtue and with wisdom. " A man," to use the words of his great panegyrist, " of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...always seemed to do best that which he was doing." We are now arrived at that period which must naturally be considered favourable to the agitation of...

...arand such felicity of performance, that he alwavi seemed to do liest that which he was doing; a mar to wear their settings. When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect widens, the objects of Ian ;uage was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. " To...

...has been tady written by Goldsmith, a man of such nnety of powers, and such felicity of performucc, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of bug minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious wuboat exuberance,...

...literary qualifications cannot be better described than in the words of l)r. Johnson, who calls him " a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that lie always seemed to do best thai which he was doing; a man, who had the art of being minute, without...

...PARNELL is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, the profit, and after bleeding in the battle grew...and the expense of millions, but by contemplating What such an author has told, who would tell again ? I have made an abstract from his larger narrative...

...any writer, the well-known eulogium of Johnson, who in the life of Parnell characterizes Goldsmith as "a man of such variety of powers and such felicity...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." Were not the decisions of criticism as different as the several writers of it, we should be often surprised...