 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 sider
...was 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 734 sider
...was 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... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 sider
...was 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 sider
...8vo., . . . 575 PREFACE to a History of the Earth and Animated Nature, in eight volumes, 8vo., 579 ADVERTISEMENT. IT is certainly remarkable that, during...mainly to be attributed to the obscurity in which all Goldsmith's earlier, and many of his later labors, were long involved ; but which, it is hoped, the... | |
 | Lucien Bonaparte Chase - 1850 - 574 sider
...Prior, and the only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Johnron, ' of such variety of powers. and such felicity of performance,...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.' " " Both in prose and verse, no writer can be more fitly placed among the English classics, lha•... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1850 - 356 sider
...edition of Dr. Prior, and the only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Johnson, 'of such variety of powers, and such...doing : a man who had the art of being minute without tcdiousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, eiact without... | |
 | Lucien Bonaparte Chase - 1850 - 576 sider
...Prior, and Ihe only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Jnhnron, 'of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...that he always seemed to do best that which he was dolng: a man who had the art of being minute without lediousnees, and general without confusion ; whose... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1850 - 800 sider
...Prior, and the only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Juhnion. 'of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he wait doing : a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without contusion... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1851 - 200 sider
...than the productions of the Rev. Joel Tyler Headley. Of him it may not only be said that he " is a man of such variety of powers and such felicity of performance, that he always seems to do best what he is doing" — but it may be added, that he always does that which he is doing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 sider
...model of perfection, and the standard of the English language. Dr. Johnson says, " Goldsmith was a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he seemed to excel in whatever he attempted ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness,... | |
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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... 
