The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift, Volym 1R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1753 |
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... bishop of Canterbury to fummon him , and that when a fynod was convened at St. Paul's , a quarrel happened between the bishop of London and the duke of Lancaster , concerning Wick- liff's fitting down in their prefence . B 4 a num- a ...
... bishop of Canterbury to fummon him , and that when a fynod was convened at St. Paul's , a quarrel happened between the bishop of London and the duke of Lancaster , concerning Wick- liff's fitting down in their prefence . B 4 a num- a ...
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... bishop of Lincoln , chancellor and treasurer of England . Speight fays , this lady was given him in marriage by Ed- ward III . in return of his fervices performed in his embaffies in France . Chaucer's fecond fon , Lewis , was born in ...
... bishop of Lincoln , chancellor and treasurer of England . Speight fays , this lady was given him in marriage by Ed- ward III . in return of his fervices performed in his embaffies in France . Chaucer's fecond fon , Lewis , was born in ...
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... bishop of London prohibited a great num- ber of books which he thought had a tendency to de- ftroy religion and virtue , as did alfo the king in 1529 ; but in fo great efteem were his works then , and fo highly valued by the people of ...
... bishop of London prohibited a great num- ber of books which he thought had a tendency to de- ftroy religion and virtue , as did alfo the king in 1529 ; but in fo great efteem were his works then , and fo highly valued by the people of ...
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... bishops I fhew ; And in Latin I fpeake wordes a few , To faver with my predication , And for to flere men to devotion . Then fhew forth my long christall stones , Ycrammed full of clouts and of bones ; Relicks they been , as were they ...
... bishops I fhew ; And in Latin I fpeake wordes a few , To faver with my predication , And for to flere men to devotion . Then fhew forth my long christall stones , Ycrammed full of clouts and of bones ; Relicks they been , as were they ...
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... bishop of Winchefter , in which he was unfuccefsful . This disappointment , joined with the narrowness of his circumftances , forced him to quit the university and we find him next refiding at the house of a friend in the North , where ...
... bishop of Winchefter , in which he was unfuccefsful . This disappointment , joined with the narrowness of his circumftances , forced him to quit the university and we find him next refiding at the house of a friend in the North , where ...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of ..., Volym 1 Theophilus Cibber,Robert Shiells Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1753 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of ..., Volym 1 Theophilus Cibber,Robert Shiells Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1753 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Theophilus Cibber Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1753 |
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Sida 137 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Sida 94 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Sida 243 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Sida 312 - I know frail beauty like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords; That love a jarring is of minds...
Sida 20 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Sida 85 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Sida 292 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Sida 290 - O Pallas, thou hast failed thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword. I warned thee, but in vain, for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far ; Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come.
Sida 205 - Two days after their arrival there, Mr. Donne was left alone in that room, in which Sir Robert and he and some other friends had dined together. To -this place Sir Robert returned within half an hour; and as he left, so he found, Mr. Donne alone, but in such an...
Sida 137 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.