The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Present Time. Including a Complete History of England from that Area, Volym 2Charles Dilly, 1791 |
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... use the greatest precaution , for incredible pains were taken to dif cover him by Bonner's emiffaries , which obliged him to change his lodgings frequently in the night . At length his efcape from England was happily ef- fected , by the ...
... use the greatest precaution , for incredible pains were taken to dif cover him by Bonner's emiffaries , which obliged him to change his lodgings frequently in the night . At length his efcape from England was happily ef- fected , by the ...
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... use of this fum thus thrown into the market as to prevent the artful fall of the exchange with England . The council approved his defign , and remitted the money , with which fum he contrived to take up 200 / . every day upon his own ...
... use of this fum thus thrown into the market as to prevent the artful fall of the exchange with England . The council approved his defign , and remitted the money , with which fum he contrived to take up 200 / . every day upon his own ...
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... uses . Upon four pinnacles at each corner of the roof was placed a grafhopper , the creft of the arms of the Grefham family ; and in honour of Sir Thomas , a very large grafhopper was placed on the turret of the new Royal Exchange ...
... uses . Upon four pinnacles at each corner of the roof was placed a grafhopper , the creft of the arms of the Grefham family ; and in honour of Sir Thomas , a very large grafhopper was placed on the turret of the new Royal Exchange ...
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... use his confcience to himfelf , and ferve her at large as a private man , rather than to be her greatest counsellor . " Yet the queen ftill treated him very graciously , and forebore either to hear his enemies , who were many , or to ...
... use his confcience to himfelf , and ferve her at large as a private man , rather than to be her greatest counsellor . " Yet the queen ftill treated him very graciously , and forebore either to hear his enemies , who were many , or to ...
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... use of the name of Falstaff . The firft offence was indeed avoided ; but I am not fure whether the author ' might not be fomewhat to blame in his fecond choice , fince it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , or Faftolf , who was a knight ...
... use of the name of Falstaff . The firft offence was indeed avoided ; but I am not fure whether the author ' might not be fomewhat to blame in his fecond choice , fince it is certain that Sir John Falstaff , or Faftolf , who was a knight ...
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Sida 283 - There is, however, proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature.
Sida 38 - Those very qualities, however, which now render his character less amiable, fitted him to be the instrument of Providence for advancing the reformation among a fierce people, and enabled him to face dangers and to surmount opposition, from which a person of a more gentle spirit would have been apt to shrink back.
Sida 284 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
Sida 285 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Sida 272 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 283 - Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with construction, but that he never advanced to an easy perusal of the Roman authors. Concerning his skill in modern languages, I can find no sufficient...
Sida 272 - The original of every knight was then living in the court of Queen Elizabeth, and he attributed to each of them that virtue which he thought was most conspicuous in them - an ingenious piece of flattery, though it turned not much to his account.
Sida 259 - Not many years after, Buchanan undertook the same work ; and if his accuracy and impartiality had been, in any degree, equal to the elegance of his taste, and to the purity and vigour of his style, his history might be placed on a level with the most admired compositions of the ancients. But, instead of rejecting the improbable tales of chronicle writers, he was at the utmost pains to adorn them ; and hath clothed, with all the beauties and graces...
Sida 268 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Sida 267 - King-street, [DaWin,] by absolute want of bread ; and that he refused twenty pieces sent him by the Earl of Essex, and gave this answer to the person who brought them, That he was sure he had no time to spend them.