The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1815 |
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... lived together in the greatest and most unreserved intimacy ; Mr. Jephson usually spending the sumper with Mr. Hamil- ton at his house at Hampton - court and also giving him much of his company in town during the winter . In 1767 , Mr ...
... lived together in the greatest and most unreserved intimacy ; Mr. Jephson usually spending the sumper with Mr. Hamil- ton at his house at Hampton - court and also giving him much of his company in town during the winter . In 1767 , Mr ...
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... lived ; and these also we learn from the writings of other fathers . But the peculiar use of Jerom's works is , 1. Their exhibiting to us more fragments of the ancient Greek translators of the Bible , than the works of any other father ...
... lived ; and these also we learn from the writings of other fathers . But the peculiar use of Jerom's works is , 1. Their exhibiting to us more fragments of the ancient Greek translators of the Bible , than the works of any other father ...
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... Marianus is the first who mentions it , and he lived 200 years after . Blondel's Eclaircissem , de la question : Si une femme a este assise au siege papal , p . 17 . among those of the other popes in the register of 26 JOAN .
... Marianus is the first who mentions it , and he lived 200 years after . Blondel's Eclaircissem , de la question : Si une femme a este assise au siege papal , p . 17 . among those of the other popes in the register of 26 JOAN .
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... lived in poverty . He was one of the earliest tragic poets of France , but abused the uncommon facility he had in writing verses ; so that though his French poems were much admired when their author was living , it now requires great ...
... lived in poverty . He was one of the earliest tragic poets of France , but abused the uncommon facility he had in writing verses ; so that though his French poems were much admired when their author was living , it now requires great ...
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... lived privately on an easy competence which he had saved . At what time he was born we know not , but he lived in the reigns of queen Anne , king George I. and part of George II . and died March 11 , 1748 . As a dramatic writer , he is ...
... lived privately on an easy competence which he had saved . At what time he was born we know not , but he lived in the reigns of queen Anne , king George I. and part of George II . and died March 11 , 1748 . As a dramatic writer , he is ...
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Էջ 151 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Էջ 70 - Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.
Էջ 416 - This often betrayed him into indecent and undutiful expressions with respect to the queen's person and conduct. 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.
Էջ 14 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, • Soft without weakness, without glaring gay; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains.
Էջ 311 - He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a 'clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
Էջ 28 - Her unexperienced mind, working day and night on this favourite object, mistook the impulses of passion for heavenly inspirations; and she fancied that she saw visions, and heard voices, exhorting her to reestablish the throne of France, and to expel the foreign invaders.
Էջ 131 - But what appears to me," adds his lordship, " more particularly to have enabled him to employ his talents so much to his own and the public advantage, was the regular allotment of his time to particular occupations, and a scrupulous adherence to the distribution which he had fixed : hence all his studies were pursued without interruption or confusion.
Էջ 318 - The State of the printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament considered.
Էջ 313 - Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks.
Էջ 406 - But none of our writers can, in my opinion justly contest the superiority of Knolles, who, in his history of the Turks, has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit.