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], 1816 |
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Pagina 22
... on the encomiast , not upon the author ; whose performances are , what they pretend to be , the effusions of a man of wit ; gay , vigorous , and airy . His verses to 鲁 Howard shew great fertility of mind ; and his " 22 SACKVILLE .
... on the encomiast , not upon the author ; whose performances are , what they pretend to be , the effusions of a man of wit ; gay , vigorous , and airy . His verses to 鲁 Howard shew great fertility of mind ; and his " 22 SACKVILLE .
Pagina 23
... shew great fertility of mind ; and his " Dorinda " has been imitated by Pope . ' woo SACROBOSCO . See HOLYWOOD . SACY . See MAISTRE . SADEEL ( ANTHONY ) , one of the promoters of the re- formation , was born in 1534 , at the castle of ...
... shew great fertility of mind ; and his " Dorinda " has been imitated by Pope . ' woo SACROBOSCO . See HOLYWOOD . SACY . See MAISTRE . SADEEL ( ANTHONY ) , one of the promoters of the re- formation , was born in 1534 , at the castle of ...
Pagina 41
... shew that he was a man of considerable opulence.3 ST . AMANT ( MARK - ANTHONY - GERARD , sieur de ) , a French poet , was born at Roan in Normandy in 1594. In the epistle dedicatory to the third part of his works , he tells us , that ...
... shew that he was a man of considerable opulence.3 ST . AMANT ( MARK - ANTHONY - GERARD , sieur de ) , a French poet , was born at Roan in Normandy in 1594. In the epistle dedicatory to the third part of his works , he tells us , that ...
Pagina 70
... shew that Sallust partook largely of the corruption of the age in which he lived , and added to it by his own example . The story of his having been detected in an adulterous inter- course with the wife of Milo , who , after a severe ...
... shew that Sallust partook largely of the corruption of the age in which he lived , and added to it by his own example . The story of his having been detected in an adulterous inter- course with the wife of Milo , who , after a severe ...
Pagina 72
... shew the hand of a master . But his partia- lity may be blamed with equal justice , and even some of his most virtuous sentiments and bitter invectives against corruption in public men may be traced rather to party spirit , than to a ...
... shew the hand of a master . But his partia- lity may be blamed with equal justice , and even some of his most virtuous sentiments and bitter invectives against corruption in public men may be traced rather to party spirit , than to a ...
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Pagina 440 - What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.
Pagina 403 - The Rubric in the book of Common Prayer, and the Canons of the church of England, so far as they relate to the Parochial Clergy, considered in a course of visitation sermons," 8vo. A volume of his " Sermons on several occasions
Pagina 48 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...
Pagina 329 - ... reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst times, which his age obliged him to do; and how wicked soever the actions were which were every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them; but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always enough indulgent. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the...
Pagina 283 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Pagina 329 - Hyde was wont to say, that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young; and held it with great delight as long as they were suffered to continue together in London ; and he was very much troubled always when he heard him blamed, censured, and reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst...
Pagina 27 - Act), by which all dissenting ministers, who would not take an oath, that it was not lawful, upon any pretence whatever, to take arms against the king...
Pagina 445 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
Pagina 30 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Pagina 488 - Shower's Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged upon Petitions and Writs of Error. Fourth Edition. Containing additional cases not hitherto reported. Revised and Edited by RICHARD LOVELAND LOVELAND, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law; Editor of " Kelyng's Crown Cases," and "Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown in the Seashore.