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], 1814 |
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... style , these came from him very easily , and he continued the exercise of his pen to the last ; the press having scarcely finished his piece entitled " The zealous and impartial Protestant , " & c . 1680 , when he was attacked by a ...
... style , these came from him very easily , and he continued the exercise of his pen to the last ; the press having scarcely finished his piece entitled " The zealous and impartial Protestant , " & c . 1680 , when he was attacked by a ...
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... style of the times , and afterwards en- gaged with the Italian poet Calsabigi , with whom he joined in a conspiracy against the poetry and music of the melo - drama then in vogue in Italy and all over Europe . In 1764 , when the late ...
... style of the times , and afterwards en- gaged with the Italian poet Calsabigi , with whom he joined in a conspiracy against the poetry and music of the melo - drama then in vogue in Italy and all over Europe . In 1764 , when the late ...
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... style of composition than the French had been used to ; - as the recitative was more rapid , and the airs more marked , than in Lulli and Rameau ; there were likewise more energy , fire , and variety of movement , in his airs in gene ...
... style of composition than the French had been used to ; - as the recitative was more rapid , and the airs more marked , than in Lulli and Rameau ; there were likewise more energy , fire , and variety of movement , in his airs in gene ...
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... style was peculiarly convenient to France , where there were no good singers , and where no good singing was expected or understood by the public in general ; and where the poetry was set up against music , without allowing equality ...
... style was peculiarly convenient to France , where there were no good singers , and where no good singing was expected or understood by the public in general ; and where the poetry was set up against music , without allowing equality ...
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... style is cer- tainly poetical and spirited , and his versification clear ; his manner ornamental and diffuse ; yet with a sufficient ob- servance of the original . He has obtained a niche in the " Biographia Dramatica " for having ...
... style is cer- tainly poetical and spirited , and his versification clear ; his manner ornamental and diffuse ; yet with a sufficient ob- servance of the original . He has obtained a niche in the " Biographia Dramatica " for having ...
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Seite 318 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Seite 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Seite 317 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Seite 318 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Seite 60 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Seite 404 - In those very writings which Grotius is gravely blamed for having quoted. The usages and laws of nations, the events of history, the opinions of philosophers, the sentiments of orators and poets, as well as the observation of common life, are, in truth, the materials out of which the science of morality is formed ; and those who neglect them are justly chargeable with a vain attempt to philosophize without regard to fact and experience, the sole foundation of all true philosophy.
Seite 169 - Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.
Seite 309 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.