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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... poet . " Suidas has preserved the titles of twenty tragedies of his composing ; and he is reckoned in the number of the poets who were called the Pleiades , and who flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus , king of Egypt . The best ...
... poet . " Suidas has preserved the titles of twenty tragedies of his composing ; and he is reckoned in the number of the poets who were called the Pleiades , and who flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus , king of Egypt . The best ...
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... poet , is recorded as one of the immediate successors of Chaucer . The few dates that have been recovered of his history are , that he was ordained a sub - deacon in 1389 ; a deacon in 1393 , and a priest in 1397 ; from these it has ...
... poet , is recorded as one of the immediate successors of Chaucer . The few dates that have been recovered of his history are , that he was ordained a sub - deacon in 1389 ; a deacon in 1393 , and a priest in 1397 ; from these it has ...
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... poet's works ( vol . IV . p . 139 ) . We find Pope , a few years afterwards , in a letter to Swift , speak thus of him : He is " one of those whom his own merit has forced me to contract an intimacy with , after I had sworn never to ...
... poet's works ( vol . IV . p . 139 ) . We find Pope , a few years afterwards , in a letter to Swift , speak thus of him : He is " one of those whom his own merit has forced me to contract an intimacy with , after I had sworn never to ...
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... poet . " While he was thus conspicuous , he married ( 1741 ) Miss Lucy Fortescue , sister to Matthew lord . Fortescue , of Devonshire , by whom he had a son , Thomas , and two daughters , and with whom he appears to have lived in the ...
... poet . " While he was thus conspicuous , he married ( 1741 ) Miss Lucy Fortescue , sister to Matthew lord . Fortescue , of Devonshire , by whom he had a son , Thomas , and two daughters , and with whom he appears to have lived in the ...
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... poet , we do not find among critics any wide departure from Dr. Johnson's opinion . Lord Lyttelton's poems are to be praised chiefly for correctness and elegance of versification and style . His " Advice to Belinda , " though for the ...
... poet , we do not find among critics any wide departure from Dr. Johnson's opinion . Lord Lyttelton's poems are to be praised chiefly for correctness and elegance of versification and style . His " Advice to Belinda , " though for the ...
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Page 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 79 - 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.
Page 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Page 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Page 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Page 24 - ... 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.
Page 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Page 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Page 111 - 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.