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Page 11 - Dr. Johnson observed of Addison, ' Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' — The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in 1701, 1702, 1703, with Life by Tickell. London, 1765. 8vo. 4 vols, with portrait.
Page 332 - Is. A work once almost forgotten, but which owed its revival to the inordinate praise of Dr. Johnson, who observed that it 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.' From this storehouse of learning, intermingled with quaint observations
Page 488 - 12s. The simple cobbler of Aggawam in America, willing to help mend his native country, both in the upper leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take, and as willing never to bee paid for his work by old English wonted pay, it
Page 213 - This work was undertaken with so good an intention, and executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse :' and Dr. Johnson says, ' if he had written nothing else it would have transmitted him to
Page 247 - 3s. 6d. with Life by Jas. Mitford. Lond. 1846, 12mo. 5s.] Cowper thinks Bourne ' a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.' — William. Regiment for the Sea. Lond. by Tho. Hacket (1574). 4to. 10s. 6d. First edition. Inglis, 184, 17s.
Page 549 - Crabb, George. English Synonymes explained in alphabetical Order ; with copious Illustrations and Examples, drawn from the best Writers. Fourth edition. Lond. 1826. 4to. An able article on English Synonymes and this work appeared in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxxv. First edition, Lond. 1816, 8vo. Second edition, Lond. 1818, 8vo. Third edition, Lond. 1824, 8vo. Seventh edition, Lond. 1844, 8vo.
Page 79 - John. An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that eternal Life, without passing through Death. Dublin, 1698. 8vo. 7s. 6d. For this remarkable treatise upon the possibility of avoiding death,
Page 127 - Bassompierre, Marshal de. Memoirs of his Embassy to the Court of England in 1626, translated [by JW Croker], with Notes [by Sir H. Nicolas.] Lond. 1818. 8vo. 6s. Notice of these curious and interesting memoirs will be found in the Retrospective Review, xiv. 69—98. Fonthill,
Page 316 - the best evidence of its merit, the general and continued approbation of the public' Buonamici, Castruccio. Commentaries of the late "War in Italy, translated from the Latin, with an Introduction, by A. Wishart, MA Lond. 1753. 8vo. 6s. A work written with considerable elegance, fidelity, and judgment. Buonaparte, Louis. Documents historiques et Reflections sur le
Page 324 - is very entertaining. The style, indeed, is mere chit-chat. I do not believe that Burnet intentionally lied ; but he was so much prejudiced, that he took no pains to find out the truth. He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain