...writer, the well-known eulogium of Johnson, who in the life of Parnell characterizes Goldsmith as " a man of such variety of powers and such felicity...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." Were not the decisions of criticism as different as the several writers of it, we should be often surprised...

...writer, the well-known eulogium of Johnson, who in the life of Parnell characterizes Goldsmith as " a man of such variety of powers and such felicity...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." Were not the decisions of criticism as different as the several writers of it, we should be often surprised...

...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...

...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^ earlier, and many...

...Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...tediousness, and general without confusion; whose languaga was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. What...

...Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousncss, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without...

...acquitted himself? Dr. Johnson gives the reply: — "A man," be says, "of such variety of powers, and of such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing." To attempt so many departments of literature, and to succeed in no ordinary degree in all, is a merit...

...acquitted himself? Dr. Johnson gives the reply: — "A man," he says, "of such variety of powers, and of such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing." To attempt so many departments of literature, and to succeed in no ordinary degree in all, is a merit...

...acquitted himself? Dr. Johnson gives the reply : — " A man," he says, " of such variety of powers, and of such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing." To attempt so many departments of literature, and to succeed in no ordinary degree in all, is a merit...

...devotion to the picturesque. Goldsmith's felicity of execution drew from his friend the jealous eulogy that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; yet in refinement of taste and delicacy of selection, he was inferior to Gray. We should manage our...