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 - Biography |
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... Italian lan- guages , particularly the former , were nearly as familiar to him as that of his native country . In his mind , benevo- lence and poetry had always a mingled operation . His taste was founded upon the best models of ...
... Italian lan- guages , particularly the former , were nearly as familiar to him as that of his native country . In his mind , benevo- lence and poetry had always a mingled operation . His taste was founded upon the best models of ...
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... Italy for the eastern parts of the world . Having passed through Dalmatia , Thrace , and some provinces of Asia Minor , his first care was to pay a visit to Jerusalem , which was then considered as a neces- sary act of religion . From ...
... Italy for the eastern parts of the world . Having passed through Dalmatia , Thrace , and some provinces of Asia Minor , his first care was to pay a visit to Jerusalem , which was then considered as a neces- sary act of religion . From ...
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... Italian monk , whom he mentions in his works with the utmost intemperance of language , without exactly informing us what his errors were . In the year 410 , when Rome was besieged by the Goths , many fled from thence to Jerusalem and ...
... Italian monk , whom he mentions in his works with the utmost intemperance of language , without exactly informing us what his errors were . In the year 410 , when Rome was besieged by the Goths , many fled from thence to Jerusalem and ...
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... Italy . In the eighth number of the Tatler , ( April 18 , 1709 ) , he is men- tioned as " the last great painter Italy has sent us . " Pope speaks of him with more enthusiasm than felicity , and ra- ther as if he was determined to ...
... Italy . In the eighth number of the Tatler , ( April 18 , 1709 ) , he is men- tioned as " the last great painter Italy has sent us . " Pope speaks of him with more enthusiasm than felicity , and ra- ther as if he was determined to ...
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... Italian . Dr. Humfrey , in the Life of our bishop , has endeavoured to represent him a favourer of the nonconformists . But it is certain , that he opposed them in his exile , when they began their disputes at Francfort ; and in a ...
... Italian . Dr. Humfrey , in the Life of our bishop , has endeavoured to represent him a favourer of the nonconformists . But it is certain , that he opposed them in his exile , when they began their disputes at Francfort ; and in a ...
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Page 151 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 70 - Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.
Page 416 - This often betrayed him into indecent and undutiful expressions with respect to the queen's person and conduct. Those very qualities, however, which now render his character less amiable, fitted him to be the instrument of providence for advancing the reformation among a fierce people, and enabled him to face dangers, and to surmount opposition, from which a person of a more gentle spirit would have been apt to shrink back.
Page 14 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, • Soft without weakness, without glaring gay; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains.
Page 311 - He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a 'clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
Page 28 - Her unexperienced mind, working day and night on this favourite object, mistook the impulses of passion for heavenly inspirations; and she fancied that she saw visions, and heard voices, exhorting her to reestablish the throne of France, and to expel the foreign invaders.
Page 131 - But what appears to me," adds his lordship, " more particularly to have enabled him to employ his talents so much to his own and the public advantage, was the regular allotment of his time to particular occupations, and a scrupulous adherence to the distribution which he had fixed : hence all his studies were pursued without interruption or confusion.
Page 318 - The State of the printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament considered.
Page 313 - Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks.
Page 406 - But none of our writers can, in my opinion justly contest the superiority of Knolles, who, in his history of the Turks, has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit.