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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... friends in London , Dr. Johnson , Mr. Burke , Mr. Charles Townsend , Garrick , Goldsmith , & c . in consequence of having accepted the office of master of the horse to lord viscount Townsend , then appointed lord lieutenant of Ire- land ...
... friends in London , Dr. Johnson , Mr. Burke , Mr. Charles Townsend , Garrick , Goldsmith , & c . in consequence of having accepted the office of master of the horse to lord viscount Townsend , then appointed lord lieutenant of Ire- land ...
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... friendship . When he had travelled as long as he thought expedient , and seen every thing that was curious and worth his ... friends , he determined to retire into some very remote region ; and therefore leaving his country , parents ...
... friendship . When he had travelled as long as he thought expedient , and seen every thing that was curious and worth his ... friends , he determined to retire into some very remote region ; and therefore leaving his country , parents ...
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... friendship of Pope , than for any merits of his own , was a native of Ireland , and stu- died for a year under sir Godfrey Kneller . Norris , fra- mer and keeper of the pictures to king William and queen Anne , was the first friend who ...
... friendship of Pope , than for any merits of his own , was a native of Ireland , and stu- died for a year under sir Godfrey Kneller . Norris , fra- mer and keeper of the pictures to king William and queen Anne , was the first friend who ...
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... friend to Zurich , and assisted him in his theological lectures . It was probably about this time that he made an ... friends , frequently telling them that when their brethren endured such " bitter tortures and horrible martyrdoms at ...
... friend to Zurich , and assisted him in his theological lectures . It was probably about this time that he made an ... friends , frequently telling them that when their brethren endured such " bitter tortures and horrible martyrdoms at ...
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... friends , who was called her favourite lover . From Athens she went to Rome , where she taught divinity ; and , in ... friend to whose assistance she owed her advancement in learning . This commerce , however , might have remained a ...
... friends , who was called her favourite lover . From Athens she went to Rome , where she taught divinity ; and , in ... friend to whose assistance she owed her advancement in learning . This commerce , however , might have remained 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.