The General Biographical Dictionary, 21. kötetJ. Nichols, 1815 |
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5. oldal
... 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 , Græc . - Moreri . > perspicuity in which the English phraseology appears at this LYCURGU S. 5.
... 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 , Græc . - Moreri . > perspicuity in which the English phraseology appears at this LYCURGU S. 5.
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... writers bear ample testimony : but it is confirmed by a most direct and singular evidence . An anonymous writer has taken the pains to modernize the entire poem , consisting of about 28,000 verses , to change the ancient context , and ...
... writers bear ample testimony : but it is confirmed by a most direct and singular evidence . An anonymous writer has taken the pains to modernize the entire poem , consisting of about 28,000 verses , to change the ancient context , and ...
21. oldal
... writer , was the eldest son of sir Thomas Lyttelton , of Hagley , in Worcestershire , bart . and was born in 1709. He came into the world two months before the usual time , and was imagined by the nurse to be dead , but upon closer ...
... writer , was the eldest son of sir Thomas Lyttelton , of Hagley , in Worcestershire , bart . and was born in 1709. He came into the world two months before the usual time , and was imagined by the nurse to be dead , but upon closer ...
22. oldal
... writer , both in verse and prose ; his " Progress of Love , " and his " Persian Letters , " hav- ing both been written when he was very young . After a short residence at Oxford , he began his travels in 1728 , and visited France and ...
... writer , both in verse and prose ; his " Progress of Love , " and his " Persian Letters , " hav- ing both been written when he was very young . After a short residence at Oxford , he began his travels in 1728 , and visited France and ...
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... writer yet living ; and a quarto volume of " Poems , " published in 1780 , was , as well as the " Letters , " publicly disowned by his executors , but as to the " Poems , " they added , “ great part whereof are undoubtedly spurious ...
... writer yet living ; and a quarto volume of " Poems , " published in 1780 , was , as well as the " Letters , " publicly disowned by his executors , but as to the " Poems , " they added , “ great part whereof are undoubtedly spurious ...
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9. oldal - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
79. oldal - 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.
66. oldal - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
24. oldal - ... 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.
28. oldal - Thus he continued giving his dying benediction to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening; and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when between seven and eight o'clock he expired, almost without a groan.
227. oldal - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
394. oldal - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
453. oldal - Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late rev. Thomas Baker, BD of St. John's-college, from the papers of Dr. Zachary Grey, with a Catalogue of his MS Collections," Cambridge, 8vo; and in 1790 "A Catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges of the university of Cambridge,
111. oldal - 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.
195. oldal - I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind.