 | 1854 - 706 頁
...Ravenna Diary: "Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, all the examples and mode of giving them are sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an ocasional couplet. 'Tis a grand poem — so true ! True as the 10th of Juvenal himself. The lapse of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 頁
...painter has not copied badly the prints from Titian, &c., considering all thmgs. * ***•** " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 頁
...written by me, reserving to myself the right of printing one edition. SAM. JOHNSON." 3 Jan. 9, 1821. 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 Sharp's (the Conversationist, as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 頁
...printing one edition. SAM. JOHNSON." a Jan. 9,1821. Read Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes,"—all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well...part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember an observation of Sharp's (the Conversationist, as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 頁
...show. The instances of variety of disappointment are chosen so judiciously, and painted so i lime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. 1 do not so much admire the opening. The first line, " Let observation," &c. is certainly heavy and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 326 頁
...sentimental." * And Lord Byron, in his Ravenna Diary, f has the following entry on the same subject : — " Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, — all the...them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the ex» 3f!tceHaneou» Prose Wor-ks, vol. iii. p. 264, 1834; — vol. i. part 3d, 1841, (Edin. Ed.) t... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 320 頁
...sentimental." * And Lord Byron, in his Ravenna Diary, f has the following entry on the same subject : — " Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, — all the...of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, writh the ex* Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. iii. p. 264, 1834; — vol. i. part 3d, 1841, (Edin.... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1874 - 312 頁
...less miserable, and somewhat less ignorant, than it was before he entered it." — Prof. Huxley. * " Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes ; all the examples and mode of giving them sublime. "Pis a grand poem, and so true." — Byron's Diary, 1821. "If all that the old poets have sung, in... | |
 | Strivings - 1874 - 312 頁
...less miserable, and somewhat less ignorant, than it was before he entered it."—Prof. Huxley. * " Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes; all the examples and mode of giving them sublime. 'Tis a grand poem, and so true."-—Byron's Diary, 1821. " If all that the old poets have sung, in... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1875 - 314 頁
...less miserable, and somewhat less ignorant, than it was before he entered it." — Prof. Huxley. * " Read Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes; all the examples and mode of giving them sublime. 'Tis a grand poem, and so true."— Byron's Diary, 1821. "If all that the old poets have sung, in isolated... | |
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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... 
