Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Band 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... court of Francis I. In 1536 he accompanied Cardinal du Belloi to Rome , and obtained the pope's absolution for the breach of his monastic vows . On his return to France he obtained a prebend in a collegiate church , and was afterwards ...
... court of Francis I. In 1536 he accompanied Cardinal du Belloi to Rome , and obtained the pope's absolution for the breach of his monastic vows . On his return to France he obtained a prebend in a collegiate church , and was afterwards ...
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... court , where he had a warm friend in Madame de Maintenon , and he was appointed by Louis XIV . historiographer of the kingdom , together with Boileau . Of his historical labours however only a few fragments remain . Several years after ...
... court , where he had a warm friend in Madame de Maintenon , and he was appointed by Louis XIV . historiographer of the kingdom , together with Boileau . Of his historical labours however only a few fragments remain . Several years after ...
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... court in the time of Leo X. His frescoes suffered during the occupation of Rome by the imperial troops in 1527 , and ... Court . In 1766 they were removed to Buckingham House , thence carried to Windsor , and in 1804 again restored to ...
... court in the time of Leo X. His frescoes suffered during the occupation of Rome by the imperial troops in 1527 , and ... Court . In 1766 they were removed to Buckingham House , thence carried to Windsor , and in 1804 again restored to ...
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... court he was knighted , made captain of the guard , seneschal of the county of Cornwall , and lord warden of the stannaries ; and he received a grant of 12,000 acres of the forfeited estates of the Earl of Desmond , and a lucrative ...
... court he was knighted , made captain of the guard , seneschal of the county of Cornwall , and lord warden of the stannaries ; and he received a grant of 12,000 acres of the forfeited estates of the Earl of Desmond , and a lucrative ...
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... Court of King's Bench to receive sentence on the 28th of October 1618 , and beheaded the next morning , in the sixty - sixth year of his age . His conduct after his committal to the Tower , and up to the moment of his death , was so ...
... Court of King's Bench to receive sentence on the 28th of October 1618 , and beheaded the next morning , in the sixty - sixth year of his age . His conduct after his committal to the Tower , and up to the moment of his death , was so ...
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Seite 453 - Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Seite 451 - ... if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Seite 451 - For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet 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 455 - The humour of ... the constable, in A Midsummer Night's Dreame, he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks, which is the roade from London to Stratford, and there was living that constable about 1642, when I first came to Oxon.
Seite 267 - Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer...
Seite 451 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him.
Seite 97 - Half a Dozen of them when met to work with their Needles, used, when they got a Book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their Mothers sometimes with them; and both Mothers and Daughters used to be pleased with the Observations they put me upon making.
Seite 445 - Steevens, the most acute, and perhaps the most learned, of his commentators, stated, long before, that " all that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is — that he was • born at Stratford-upon-Avon — married and had children there — went to London, where he commenced actor and wrote poems and plays — returned to Stratford, made his will, died, and was buried.
Seite 449 - ... as gentlemen. His father, who was a considerable dealer in wool, had so large a family, ten children in all, that though he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Seite 39 - The Whole Booke of Psalmes : With the Hymnes Evangelicall and Songs Spirituall. Composed into 4 parts by Sundry Authors with severall Tunes as have been and are usually sung in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands : Never as yet before in one Volume published.