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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... respect to style , in his latter performances . The first production which raised him into public notice , was a poem in recommendation of the Magdalen hospital ; and Mr. Jonas Hanway , one of its most active patrons , often declared ...
... respect to style , in his latter performances . The first production which raised him into public notice , was a poem in recommendation of the Magdalen hospital ; and Mr. Jonas Hanway , one of its most active patrons , often declared ...
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... respects the eloquence of this martyr , and the impression it made on the liberal and learned Poggio : " His voice was sweet , distinct , and full : his action every way the most proper , either to express in- dignation , or to raise ...
... respects the eloquence of this martyr , and the impression it made on the liberal and learned Poggio : " His voice was sweet , distinct , and full : his action every way the most proper , either to express in- dignation , or to raise ...
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... respecting the holy Trinity , which amounted fully to tritheism ; but what is more extraor- dinary , he taught that the morality of the Gospel is im- perfect , and that a better and more complete law is to be given by the Holy Ghost ...
... respecting the holy Trinity , which amounted fully to tritheism ; but what is more extraor- dinary , he taught that the morality of the Gospel is im- perfect , and that a better and more complete law is to be given by the Holy Ghost ...
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... respecting his parts and probity , made him his domestic chaplain . This preferment placed him in a conspicuous point of view ; and in 1679 he was appointed to preach before the mayor and aldermen at Guildhall- chapel , on Palm - Sunday ...
... respecting his parts and probity , made him his domestic chaplain . This preferment placed him in a conspicuous point of view ; and in 1679 he was appointed to preach before the mayor and aldermen at Guildhall- chapel , on Palm - Sunday ...
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... respect many years after , but to whose instructions he did not pay much regard , except that he formally attended his lectures , as well as those in the college hall . It was at Jordan's request that he translated Pope's Messiah into ...
... respect many years after , but to whose instructions he did not pay much regard , except that he formally attended his lectures , as well as those in the college hall . It was at Jordan's request that he translated Pope's Messiah into ...
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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.