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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... opinion that he made considerable addi- tions to those amplifications of our language , in which Chaucer , Gower , and Hoccleve , led the way ; and that he is the first of our writers whose style is clothed with that 1 Fabr . Bibl ...
... opinion that he made considerable addi- tions to those amplifications of our language , in which Chaucer , Gower , and Hoccleve , led the way ; and that he is the first of our writers whose style is clothed with that 1 Fabr . Bibl ...
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... until his death , Oct. 3 , 1653. Fuller and Wood unite in their praises of Mr. Lyford's character , and in their Memoirs as above . - MS Letters in Mr. Nichols's possession , opinion of his writings , which , says Wood , LY E. 11.
... until his death , Oct. 3 , 1653. Fuller and Wood unite in their praises of Mr. Lyford's character , and in their Memoirs as above . - MS Letters in Mr. Nichols's possession , opinion of his writings , which , says Wood , LY E. 11.
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... opinion of his writings , which , says Wood , " savour much of piety , zeal , and sincerity , but shew him to have been a zealous Calvinist . " Dr. Walker informs us that " he suf- ferred much from the faction , both in his name and mi ...
... opinion of his writings , which , says Wood , " savour much of piety , zeal , and sincerity , but shew him to have been a zealous Calvinist . " Dr. Walker informs us that " he suf- ferred much from the faction , both in his name and mi ...
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... opinion . At length , after many fruit- less journeys , Lyserus took the singular resolution of visit- ing France , with a view to repair his fortune by chess , a game he was perfectly master of , and accordingly settled at Versailles ...
... opinion . At length , after many fruit- less journeys , Lyserus took the singular resolution of visit- ing France , with a view to repair his fortune by chess , a game he was perfectly master of , and accordingly settled at Versailles ...
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... opinion of Gray , which the admirers of the poem will perhaps scarcely think more sympathetic than Jolmson's si- lence . In a letter to lord Orford , who had probably spoken with disrespect of the Monody , Gray says , " I am not totally ...
... opinion of Gray , which the admirers of the poem will perhaps scarcely think more sympathetic than Jolmson's si- lence . In a letter to lord Orford , who had probably spoken with disrespect of the Monody , Gray says , " I am not totally ...
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Seite 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Seite 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Seite 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Seite 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Seite 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Seite 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Seite 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Seite 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Seite 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.