...saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner." In his works the Doctor has pronounced him to be, "A man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." — "He was," says Johnson emphatically, on another occasion, " a very great man. Every year he lived...

..." is a task which I should .'ery willingly decline, since it has lately been written by Goldsmith; a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...tediousness^ and general without confusion ; whose lantirely to their and your discretion. The kindness guage was copious without exuberance, exact withof...

..." is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has lately been written by Goldsmith ; ce that the ' To the original of lbift letter there la annexed a receipt, which shown the sum of I5/. was paid...

...was on the title-page ; but the writer, whose powers were so various and performance so felicitous, ' that he always seemed to do best that which ' he was doing,' finds it difficult not to reveal his name. The preface was discerningly written. That a man who had...

...was on the title-page ; but the writer, whose powers were so various and performance so felicitous, ' that he always seemed to do best that which ' he was doing,' finds it difficult not to reveal his name. The preface was discerningly written. That a man who had...

...was on the title-page ; but the writer, whose powers were so various and performance so felicitous, ' that he always seemed to do best that which ' he was doing,' finds it difficult not to reveal his name. The preface was discerningly written. That a man who had...

...Prior, and the only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Johnron, ' of such variety of powers. and such felicity of performance,...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.' " " Both in prose and verse, no writer can be more fitly placed among the English classics, lha•...

...both in verse and prose, as an English classic — " a man," to use the expressions of Dr. Johnson, " of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." This neglect is mainly to be attributed to the obscurity in which all Goldsmith's earlier, and many...

...Prior, and the only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Johnson, 'of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...doing : a man who had the art of being minute without tcdiousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, eiact without...

...Prior, and Ihe only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Jnhnron, 'of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance,...that he always seemed to do best that which he was dolng: a man who had the art of being minute without lediousnees, and general without confusion ; whose...