A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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... say , that as he has followed the method of Hippocrates and Galen , fo he has in a great meafure shared their spirit , and written with perfpicuity and judgment . The venetian printer has infcribed this neat edition of this valuable ...
... say , that as he has followed the method of Hippocrates and Galen , fo he has in a great meafure shared their spirit , and written with perfpicuity and judgment . The venetian printer has infcribed this neat edition of this valuable ...
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... ( says the king ) , and ftudy it , before you pretend to be learned . " Baratier ap- plied himself inftantly to it , and with fuch fuccefs , that at the end of five months he publicly maintained a thefis in it . He continued to add new ...
... ( says the king ) , and ftudy it , before you pretend to be learned . " Baratier ap- plied himself inftantly to it , and with fuch fuccefs , that at the end of five months he publicly maintained a thefis in it . He continued to add new ...
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... say , such a one died of a Garrick , a Quin , or a Barry fever . In 1746 Mr. Barry came over to England , and was engaged at Drury - lane ; and the next year the patent falling into Meffrs . Garrick's and Lacy's hands , Mr. Barry took ...
... say , such a one died of a Garrick , a Quin , or a Barry fever . In 1746 Mr. Barry came over to England , and was engaged at Drury - lane ; and the next year the patent falling into Meffrs . Garrick's and Lacy's hands , Mr. Barry took ...
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... says the doc- tor , among other things , I cannot help looking upon you as one of the old pro- phets , with his difciples ftanding about him with concern and attention in their faces , catching up the golden words as they drop , ' or to ...
... says the doc- tor , among other things , I cannot help looking upon you as one of the old pro- phets , with his difciples ftanding about him with concern and attention in their faces , catching up the golden words as they drop , ' or to ...
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... says Bautru , " he never touches what he is entrusted with . " BAXTER ( RICHARD ) , an eminent nonconformift divine , born Nov. 12 , 1615 , at Rowton , near High Ercal , in Shrop- fhire [ s ] . He was unlucky as to his education , by ...
... says Bautru , " he never touches what he is entrusted with . " BAXTER ( RICHARD ) , an eminent nonconformift divine , born Nov. 12 , 1615 , at Rowton , near High Ercal , in Shrop- fhire [ s ] . He was unlucky as to his education , by ...
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Էջ 337 - Betterton played him. Then might they know, the one was born alone to speak what the other only knew to write!
Էջ 82 - ... prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is...
Էջ 337 - Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Էջ 464 - ... of his words gave propriety to every change in his countenance. So that it was Mr. Booth's peculiar felicity to be heard and seen the same ; whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would...
Էջ 381 - I cannot conclude this book upon the creation without mentioning a poem which has lately appeared under that title.* The work was undertaken with so good an intention, and is executed with so great a mastery, that it deserves to be looked upon as one of the most useful and noble productions in our English verse. The reader cannot but be pleased...
Էջ 341 - The greatest orator has thought fit to quote his judgment and celebrate his life. Roscius was the example to all that would form themselves into proper and winning behaviour. His action was so well adapted to the sentiments he expressed that the youth of Rome thought they wanted only to be virtuous to be as graceful in their appearance as Roscius.
Էջ 338 - ... than by mere vehemence of voice, is of all the master-strokes of an actor the most difficult to reach.
Էջ 338 - A farther Excellence in Betterton, was, that he could vary his Spirit to the different Characters he acted. Those wild impatient Starts, that fierce and flashing Fire, which he threw into Hotspur, never came from the unruffled Temper of his Brutus (for I have, more than once, seen a Brutus as warm as Hotspur) when the Betterton Brutus was...
Էջ 187 - Guise ; and during his stay at the court of France, he was consecrated bishop of Mirepoix. All things being settled in regard to the marriage, in the month of June, he embarked with the new queen for Scotland, where they arrived in July : the nuptials were celebrated at St. Andrew's, and the February following the coronation was performed with great splendour and magnificence in the abbey church of Holyrood-house.
Էջ 431 - that he excels Juvenal, comes up to Horace, feems to create the thoughts of another, and to make whatever he handles his own. He has, in what he borrows from others, all the graces of novelty and...