 | Edmund Burke - 1812 - 850 pages
...therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment." Hawkesworth's Life of Swift is, indeed, a free and unprejudiced inquiry into the character of the dean,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 336 pages
...therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts, to a man capable of dignifying his narration, with so...much elegance of language, and force of sentiment." Accordingly he -has produced little new on the subject, except some observations of his own, which... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...be expected to say much of a life, con-? cerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so...much elegance of language, and force of sentiment." Hawkesworth's Life of Swift is, indeed, a free and unprejudiced inquiry into the character of the Dean,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...be expected to say much of a life, con* cerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment. JONATHAN SWIFT was, according to an account said to be written by himself,* the son of Jonathan Swift,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 pages
...therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment. JONATHAN SWIFT was, according to an account said lo be written by himself ', the son of Jonathan Swift,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 pages
...therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so...much elegance of language, and force of sentiment." Hawkesworth's Life of Swift is, indeed, a free and unprejudiced inquiry into the character of the Dean,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 pages
...a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of diariirying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment. JONATHAN SWIFT was, according to an account said to be written by himself, the son of Jonathan Swift,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment. JONATHAN SWIFT was, according to an account said to be written by himself,* the son of Jonathan Swift,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...down by Dr. Johnson ; and here it is worthy of remark, that whatever coolness may at one time have subsisted between them, all traces of animosity had...Swift, and by the indefatigable researches of his more recent editor, Mr. Nichols, a man who cannot be praised too highly for having enlarged the resources... | |
 | 1812 - 822 pages
...therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated ray thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment." Hawkesworth's Ljfe of Swift is, indeed, a free and unprejudiced inquiry into the character of the dean,... | |
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... Account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr. Hawkesworth, according to a scheme which I laid before him in the intimacy of our friendship. I cannot therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning... 
