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], 1813 |
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... obtained the appel- lation of " The admirable Crichton , " and by that title he has continued to be distinguished down to the present day . The accounts given of his abilities and attainments are indeed so wonderful , that they seem ...
... obtained the appel- lation of " The admirable Crichton , " and by that title he has continued to be distinguished down to the present day . The accounts given of his abilities and attainments are indeed so wonderful , that they seem ...
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... obtain a favourable reception at Venice , and particularly from Al- dus Manutius , whose praises he celebrates in very high strains . When he presented his verses to Manutius , that critic was struck with a very agreeable surprise ; and ...
... obtain a favourable reception at Venice , and particularly from Al- dus Manutius , whose praises he celebrates in very high strains . When he presented his verses to Manutius , that critic was struck with a very agreeable surprise ; and ...
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... obtain the approbation of a very ho- nourable company , and even of his antagonist himself . Amidst the discourses which were occasioned by our young Scotchman's exploits , and the high applauses that were bestowed on his genius and ...
... obtain the approbation of a very ho- nourable company , and even of his antagonist himself . Amidst the discourses which were occasioned by our young Scotchman's exploits , and the high applauses that were bestowed on his genius and ...
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... obtained acclamations and praises , than which none more magnificent were ever heard by men . The next account we have of Crichton , and which ap- pears to have been transmitted , through sir Thomas Urqu- hart , to later biographers ...
... obtained acclamations and praises , than which none more magnificent were ever heard by men . The next account we have of Crichton , and which ap- pears to have been transmitted , through sir Thomas Urqu- hart , to later biographers ...
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... obtained the friendship of Politian . He afterwards became an associate in the literary and convivial meetings at the palace of the 1 Moreri . - Dict . Hist . - Life and Heroic Actions , 1760 , 2 vols . 12mo . Born's Effigies Virorum ...
... obtained the friendship of Politian . He afterwards became an associate in the literary and convivial meetings at the palace of the 1 Moreri . - Dict . Hist . - Life and Heroic Actions , 1760 , 2 vols . 12mo . Born's Effigies Virorum ...
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Էջ 443 - This seems to have given him his first hold of the public attention ; for Waller remarked, "that he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it ;" an observation which could have had no propriety, had his poetical abilities been known before.
Էջ 60 - Sir, we have heard what you did at the House in the morning, and before many hours all England will hear it : but, Sir, you are mistaken to think that the Parliament is dissolved ; for no power under heaven can dissolve them but themselves : therefore take you notice of that.
Էջ 9 - Mantua testified their esteem by a public mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other.
Էջ 59 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Էջ 446 - I flow like thee," &c. all with admirable judgment; and the whole read together is a very strong proof of what Mr. Waller says : "Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Էջ 231 - Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland have not that painted form which is the taste of this age ; but it is a book which will always sell, it has such a stability of dates, such a certainty of facts, and such a punctuality of citation. I never before read Scotch history with certainty.
Էջ 230 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Էջ 379 - A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee, a mathematician of great fame in queen Elizabeth and king James their reigns, and some spirits, tending, had it succeeded, to a general alteration of most states and kingdoms in the world.
Էջ 263 - The works of Sam Daniel contained somewhat a flat, but yet withal a very pure and copious English, and words as warrantable as any man's, and fitter perhaps for prose than measure.
Էջ 73 - Pray, Mr. Hampden, who is that man, for I see he is on our side, by his speaking so warmly to-day? " — " That sloven," said Mr. Hampden, prophetically, " whom you see before you, hath no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach with the king, which God forbid ! in such a case, I say, that sloven will be the greatest man in England.