Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Band 9David Patrick, William Geddie W. & R. Chambers, limited, 1927 |
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Seite 59 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Seite 302 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, 3 r et it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London.
Seite 303 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be. The other, whome at that time I did not so much spare as since I wish I had, for that, as I have moderated the heate of...
Seite 303 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 242 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure ; which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men ; but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a style, and too much propensity to the language of antiquity...
Seite 303 - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Seite 175 - Kellach the bishop, and the Scots swore to observe the laws and discipline of the faith and the rights of the churches and the gospels.
Seite 308 - The latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends...
Seite 302 - Latin he was master of: but the narrowness of his circumstances, and the want of his assistance at home, forced his father to withdraw him from thence, and unhappily prevented his further proficiency in that language.
Seite 182 - That it is a fundamental law of this Church, that no pastor shall be intruded on any congregation contrary to the will of the people...