...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...doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without...

...is a task " which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by ttohl" smith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art once been engaged for, and now occupied Goldsmith on his 1770. return. Bolingbroke was the subject...

...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 eeemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minuta without tediousncss,...

...Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith,1 a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that lie always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without...

...on the title page ;* but the writer, whose powers were so various and performance so felicitous, " that he " always seemed to do best that which he was doing," finds it difficult not to reveal his name. The preface was discerningly written. That a man who had...

...performances of Goldsmith, and as the fair exponent of his genius.1' — London Quarterly Review. " 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...

...literary qualifications cannot be better described than in the words of Dr. Johnson, who calls him ' a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...: a man, who had the art of being minute, without tediousness ; and general, without confusion ; whose language was copious, without exuberance ; exact,...

...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...

...decline, since the life of Parnell has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of power and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed...doing; a man who had the art of being minute, without tediousness; and general, without confusion; whose language was copious, without exuberance; and easy,...

...fair exponent of ni» genius."— London Quarterly Review. " A man of snch variety of powers and snch felicity of performance, that he always seemed to...doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediontneea, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without...