 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information; he consulted the living as well as the dead; f he has funeral games for Patroclus, Virgil has the same for Anchisis ; and Statius (rather than omi he attained. He considered poetry as the husiness of his life; and, however he might seem to lament... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never contented the other related, that his armed chair, which in...place by the fire, was in the summer placed in the wilh constancy ; to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. From his attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never contented of Ins first labour, and to mend them was his last. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 páginas
...consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never consented with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life; nnd, however lie mi^ht seem to lament his occupation, be fillowed it «-iih constancy ; to nvike verses... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information; he consulted the living as well as the dead; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...He considered poetry as the business of his life; aud, however he might seem to lament his occupation, hu followed it with constancy; to make verses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expression... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 páginas
...had found in other writers that might be accommodated to his present purpose. as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity, when excellence could b« attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life; and, however he might seem to lament... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. lie considered poetry as the business of his life ; and, however he might seem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expression... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expression more... | |
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These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied diligence; he had recourse to every source of intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends,... 
