...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 of performance, that he always eeemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minuta without tediousncss,...

...Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith,1 a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that lie always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without...

...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...

...literary qualifications cannot be better described than in the words of Dr. Johnson, who calls him ' a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity...without constraint ; and easy, without weakness." Johnson was always ready to testify to the merits of Goldsmith ; and being, one day, of a party at...

...performances of Goldsmith, and as the fair exponent of his genius.1' — London Quarterly Review. " A man of such variety of powers and such felicity...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." — Dr. Johnson. "The pieces now collected for the first time are numerous, * * * and both the old...

...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...

...decline, since the life of Parnell has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of power and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed...confusion; whose language was copious, without exuberance; and easy, without weakness; what such an author has told, who would tell again ?" If Dr. Johnson, with...

...fair exponent of ni» genius."— London Quarterly Review. " A man of snch variety of powers and snch felicity of performance, that he always seemed to...doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediontneea, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without...

...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...without constraint, and easy without weakness."— " He was," said Johnson emphatically, on another occasion, "a very great man. Every year he lived he...

...Johnson, in his " Lives of the Poets," pays tl:following marked tribute to Goldsmith's merits : — " He was a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best tlr.it which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without...