Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. R. Smith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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Strana vii
... kind , but they are eminently excellent . It may be sufficient to name Selden's Table Talk , Boswell's Life of Johnson , and the Walpoliana . Mr. Spence seems to have been doubtful what title he should give to this collection : and ...
... kind , but they are eminently excellent . It may be sufficient to name Selden's Table Talk , Boswell's Life of Johnson , and the Walpoliana . Mr. Spence seems to have been doubtful what title he should give to this collection : and ...
Strana xi
... kind of intercourse with other persons of eminence . This gives it a more miscel- laneous form , and that variety , which is the very spirit of such a work , and fits it for the intended purpose , a Lounging Book for an idle hour . A ...
... kind of intercourse with other persons of eminence . This gives it a more miscel- laneous form , and that variety , which is the very spirit of such a work , and fits it for the intended purpose , a Lounging Book for an idle hour . A ...
Strana xii
... kind . After all , perhaps I have sinned in giving too much instead of too little . The notes are merely such as occurred to me in transcribing the work for the press ; more time , or a more convenient access to books , would have ...
... kind . After all , perhaps I have sinned in giving too much instead of too little . The notes are merely such as occurred to me in transcribing the work for the press ; more time , or a more convenient access to books , would have ...
Strana xviii
... kind of memoir , which , when he went abroad , he left in the hands of his friend Mr. Lowth for publication , with a sort of Grub - street title as a ruse de guerre ; calling himself Joseph Spence , Esquire , Poetry Professor ; he after ...
... kind of memoir , which , when he went abroad , he left in the hands of his friend Mr. Lowth for publication , with a sort of Grub - street title as a ruse de guerre ; calling himself Joseph Spence , Esquire , Poetry Professor ; he after ...
Strana xxv
... kind at Byfleet in Surrey , in the immediate vicinity of his seat at Oatlands . Thither Spence removed in the year 1749 , and immediately proceeded to turn his fields into pleasure grounds , and to plant and adorn the face of the ...
... kind at Byfleet in Surrey , in the immediate vicinity of his seat at Oatlands . Thither Spence removed in the year 1749 , and immediately proceeded to turn his fields into pleasure grounds , and to plant and adorn the face of the ...
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