 | James Boswell - 1799 - Страниц: 648
...£21, or about I \\d. a line. i He never published it. See post under Dec. 9, 1784. a 'Jan. 9, 1821. Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, — all the...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. The first line, " Let observation," etc., is certainly heavy and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Страниц: 640
...Dec. 9, 1784. 3 'Jan. 9, 1821. Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, — all the examples and mode ot giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. The first line, " Let observation," etc., is certainly heavy and... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 610
...in his diary (1821) sets down: 'Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human '"Wishes:" all the examples and the mode of giving them ' sublime, as well as the latter...so true ! true as ' the 10th of Juvenal himself.' Johnson received fifteen guineas for the copyright, only five guineas more than was paid for ' London,'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - Страниц: 528
...painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, be. considering aH things. ***** * * * " Dined. Read Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember the observation of Sharpe's (the Conversationist, as... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - Страниц: 576
...painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, &c., considering; all things. * ****** " Dined. Read Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember an observation of Sharpe's (the Conversationist, as... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - Страниц: 532
...painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, &c. considering all things. ***** * * * " Dined. Read Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, i as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1831 - Страниц: 572
...painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, &c., considering all things. • ****** " Dined. Read Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes,'— all the...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember an observation of Sharpe's (the Conversationist, as... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - Страниц: 618
...painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, &c. considering all things. * * » » * " Dined. Read Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes/ — all the...of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, wilh the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember the observation... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - Страниц: 592
...copied badly the prints from Titian, etc., considering all things. * ******* * * »***** « Dined. Read Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember an observation of Sharpe's (the Conversationist, as... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - Страниц: 400
...out. The painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, &c. considering all things. " Dined. Read Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember an observation of Sharpe's, (the Conversationist, as... | |
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Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember... 
