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], 1812 - Biography |
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... celebrated poem of Ariosto is not only an imitation , but a continuation . Of this work , he did not live to complete the third book , nor is it probable that any part of it had the advantage of his last corrections , yet it is justly ...
... celebrated poem of Ariosto is not only an imitation , but a continuation . Of this work , he did not live to complete the third book , nor is it probable that any part of it had the advantage of his last corrections , yet it is justly ...
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... celebrated mock - heroic , the " Lutrin , " which , with so small a ground of matter , contains so much variety , action , and grace ; and his " Art of Poetry , " which is in French what that of Horace is in Latin , the code of good ...
... celebrated mock - heroic , the " Lutrin , " which , with so small a ground of matter , contains so much variety , action , and grace ; and his " Art of Poetry , " which is in French what that of Horace is in Latin , the code of good ...
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... celebrated the conqueror of Cassel more feebly than the subduer of Flanders . He had however the art , or more properly the merit , along with his inundation of praises , to convey some useful lessons to the sovereign . Lewis XIV . as ...
... celebrated the conqueror of Cassel more feebly than the subduer of Flanders . He had however the art , or more properly the merit , along with his inundation of praises , to convey some useful lessons to the sovereign . Lewis XIV . as ...
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... celebrated Arnauld , in order to put him in the Bastile , Boileau observed , " His majesty is too fortunate ; he will not find him : " and when the king asked him , what was the reason why the whole world was running after a preacher ...
... celebrated Arnauld , in order to put him in the Bastile , Boileau observed , " His majesty is too fortunate ; he will not find him : " and when the king asked him , what was the reason why the whole world was running after a preacher ...
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... celebrated prince of Condé , when he passed through the city . This great commander took particular pleasure on these occasions in disconcerting his panegy- rists ; but the doctor , perceiving his intention , counter- feited great ...
... celebrated prince of Condé , when he passed through the city . This great commander took particular pleasure on these occasions in disconcerting his panegy- rists ; but the doctor , perceiving his intention , counter- feited great ...
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Page 184 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
Page 239 - And with all his drollery there is a mixture of rational and even religious reflection, at times, and always an air of pleasantry, good-nature, and humanity, that makes him, in my mind, one of the most amiable writers in the world.
Page 171 - He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of manners, are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Page 239 - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him. I love him too with a love of partiality, because he was usher of the fifth form at Westminster, when I passed through it.
Page 239 - I love him, too, with a love of partiality, because he was usher of the fifth form at -Westminster, when I passed through it He was so good-natured, and so indolent, that I lost more than I got by him ; for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven...
Page 333 - Boyle communicated memorandums concerning his own life, tells us, that what had the greatest weight in determining his judgment was, " the not feeling within himself any motion or tendency of mind which he could safely esteem a call from the Holy Ghost, and so not venturing to take holy orders, lest he should be found to have lied unto it.
Page 370 - Bible, which task they went through in nine months, having each from the company of stationers during that time thirty shillings a week.
Page 83 - Booth's peculiar felicity to be heard and seen the same — whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would...
Page 269 - A Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament, in answer to the Objections of the late Lord Bolingbroke ; in Two Letters to a young Nobleman, 1752, 8vo, reprinted in 1753.
Page 84 - Wilks would too frequently break into the time and measure of the harmony by too many spirited accents in one line ; and Booth, by too solemn a regard to harmony, would as often lose the necessary spirit of it : so that (as I have observed) could we have sometimes raised the one and sunk the other, they had both been nearer the mark.