 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...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Seite 3111816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 Seiten
...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...doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance ; exact... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 824 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 Seiten
...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...doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 Seiten
...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...doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 Seiten
...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...doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 Seiten
...both in verse and prose, as an English classic — " a man," to use the expressions of Dr. Johnson, " of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 Seiten
...both in verse and prose, as an English classic—" a man," to use the expressions of Dr. Johnson, " of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without... | |
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