The General Biographical Dictionary, Volym 29J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... honours of poetry , which the author of the lives published under the name of Cibber , is extremely anxious to wrest from him . " His works have been often reprinted ; first in 1646 , 8vo , again in 1659 , and 1676 ; very correctly by ...
... honours of poetry , which the author of the lives published under the name of Cibber , is extremely anxious to wrest from him . " His works have been often reprinted ; first in 1646 , 8vo , again in 1659 , and 1676 ; very correctly by ...
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... honour , and learning , whose manners and studies were the same with his own ; and he adds , " the better I have known him , the more I have loved him . He has been rather unhappy in his marriage ; and the privileges of those who have ...
... honour , and learning , whose manners and studies were the same with his own ; and he adds , " the better I have known him , the more I have loved him . He has been rather unhappy in his marriage ; and the privileges of those who have ...
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... honour ; saying , that " since she was a lady of real honour , she should be in that post with the queen his wife . " Henry , though he was a great monarch , was not always successful in his addresses to the fair ; and a noble saying is ...
... honour ; saying , that " since she was a lady of real honour , she should be in that post with the queen his wife . " Henry , though he was a great monarch , was not always successful in his addresses to the fair ; and a noble saying is ...
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... honoured with the diguities of duke , peer , and marshal of France , with the governments of the Upper and Lower Poitou , with the office of grand master of the ordnance ; in which , bearing the thunder of his Jupiter , he took the ...
... honoured with the diguities of duke , peer , and marshal of France , with the governments of the Upper and Lower Poitou , with the office of grand master of the ordnance ; in which , bearing the thunder of his Jupiter , he took the ...
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... honours and riches . Now , although I am well con- vinced that part of these imputations are true , and that I am ... honour , the glory , and gran- deur of me and my kingdom . I know also that he has no malignity in his heart ; that ...
... honours and riches . Now , although I am well con- vinced that part of these imputations are true , and that I am ... honour , the glory , and gran- deur of me and my kingdom . I know also that he has no malignity in his heart ; that ...
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Sida 365 - This surprise of Dr. Young, together with what Steele has said against Tickell in relation to this affair, make it highly probable that there was some underhand dealing in that business; and indeed Tickell himself, who is a very fair worthy man, has since, in a manner, as good as owned it to me.
Sida 320 - The great defect of the Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images and thoughts, " both their lustre and their shade:" such as invest them with splendour, through...
Sida 319 - His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in...
Sida 429 - The art of Restoring, or, the piety and probity of general Monk in bringing about the last restoration, evidenced from his own authentic letters ; with a just account of sir Roger, who runs the parallel as far as he can.
Sida 320 - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter, take in their turns possession of the mind.
Sida 37 - Fuller gives it as a well-authenticated fact, that " Mr. Sutton used often to repair into a private garden, where he poured forth his prayers to God, and was frequently overheard to use this expression, ' Lord, thou hast given me a large and liberal estate, give me also a heart to make use thereof.
Sida 319 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
Sida 253 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Sida 108 - It is a singular fact that the will of the donor was made on the very day on which the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the College, Mr.
Sida 364 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.