The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 28Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... gave him an opportunity of knowing a great num- ber of the first characters in antiquity , with whom he was in some measure connected . Fabricius informs us that he was contemporary , and in friendship with Pittacus of Mity- lene ...
... gave him an opportunity of knowing a great num- ber of the first characters in antiquity , with whom he was in some measure connected . Fabricius informs us that he was contemporary , and in friendship with Pittacus of Mity- lene ...
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... gave indications of his turn for study in general , by eagerly reading all books he could meet with , teaching himself to write , and embracing every opportunity he could find of deriving knowledge from other persons . His father ...
... gave indications of his turn for study in general , by eagerly reading all books he could meet with , teaching himself to write , and embracing every opportunity he could find of deriving knowledge from other persons . His father ...
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... gave a preference to the semicircular form ; " and , besides his report to the Committee , some letters also appeared , by himself and others , on the same subject , in the public newspapers , particularly in the Daily Adver- tiser ...
... gave a preference to the semicircular form ; " and , besides his report to the Committee , some letters also appeared , by himself and others , on the same subject , in the public newspapers , particularly in the Daily Adver- tiser ...
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... gave instructions about the entertainment , regulated the time of breaking up , and adjusted the expense . These parties , in the years of his severe study , were a desirable and useful relaxation to his mind , and they continued to ...
... gave instructions about the entertainment , regulated the time of breaking up , and adjusted the expense . These parties , in the years of his severe study , were a desirable and useful relaxation to his mind , and they continued to ...
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... gave an air of authenticity and consequence to his public communications . He is said to On his have been the first , in Italy at least , who published a kind of political journal under the name of " Memorie recon- dite , " afterwards ...
... gave an air of authenticity and consequence to his public communications . He is said to On his have been the first , in Italy at least , who published a kind of political journal under the name of " Memorie recon- dite , " afterwards ...
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Seite 468 - DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time ; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Seite 86 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.
Seite 248 - Complaint and those other serious poems said to be father Southwell's ; the English whereof, as it is most proper, so the sharpness and light of wit is very rare in them.
Seite 243 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old *, and has almost wholly lost his memory; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Seite 129 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing...
Seite 334 - ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well; so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
Seite 421 - An Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton, at his execution, to sir Francis Child, Sheriff of London, with the Paper itself.
Seite 215 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
Seite 265 - BATT upon Batt. A poem upon the parts, patience and pains of Barth. Kempster, clerk, poet, cutler, of Holyrood-parish in Southampton.
Seite 276 - Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just. What he thought, he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults; who censured with respect and praised with alacrity.