 | 1839 - 736 pages
...Bwrnet, DD London, 1680 ; a volume, which Doctor Johnson has declared in his Lives of the Poets, that the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. PREFACE. THE celebrating the praises of the dead, is an argument so worn out by long and frequent use,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 558 pages
...upon to soothe : " It is a book," says * Add. MSS. 4162. Art. 86 and 87, Brit. Mus. Johnson, " which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." Burnet, it seems, had previously attended a mistress of Rochester's in her last moments. This person... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1840 - 268 pages
...Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester,' " a book," says Dr. Johnson, " which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety," we shall find that the practice of Dr. Burnet was in direct opposition to his theory. The previous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...Burnet in a book, intituled, ' Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;' which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him au abridgment. He died July 26, 1680, before he had completed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...Burnet, in a book entitled, " Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester," which ought himself one of the moving powers in the system of life. When argelmente, and the saint for lU piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgment... | |
 | 1841 - 580 pages
...entitled, " Some Passages in the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester," " which," says Dr. Johnson, "the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." The first edition of Rochester's works was published at Antwerp ; its editor is unknown, ilis best... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...Burnet, in a book entitled, " Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester," which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgment. He died, July 26, 1680, before he had completed... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...drew originally, by consulting nature in his own breast. 2 A book (Burnet's Life of Rochester) which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 3 Sir John Oldys was a man of great good-nature, honour, and integrity, particularly in his character... | |
 | 1843 - 846 pages
...Christian Observer. DR. JOHNSON, writing of Bishop Bumet's Life of Rochester, says, " It is a book which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." This testimony is true ; though, unhappily, the book is not unexceptionable, as it does not soar bevoud... | |
 | 1854 - 886 pages
...the same subject, the intolerant Johnson could write of his Life of Rochester, it is " a book which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." Did space allow, •we might dwell upon the undue importance given to subordinate matters — the little... | |
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Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester," which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 
