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 |
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... language , and there was among these exiles in general a very firm persuasion that the do- minion of popery and cruelty , under queen Mary , would not be of long duration . The much wished - for event at length was made known , and upon ...
... language , and there was among these exiles in general a very firm persuasion that the do- minion of popery and cruelty , under queen Mary , would not be of long duration . The much wished - for event at length was made known , and upon ...
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... languages , and skilled in the German and 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 ...
... languages , and skilled in the German and 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 ...
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... languages , Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , under Mr. Lovejoy , then mas- ter of that school , that when he was very little more than fifteen years of age , he was sent to the university of Cam- bridge , where he was admitted in the ...
... languages , Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , under Mr. Lovejoy , then mas- ter of that school , that when he was very little more than fifteen years of age , he was sent to the university of Cam- bridge , where he was admitted in the ...
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... language , among whom Pope could never be ranked , have not considered Johnson's Latin poems as the happiest of his compositions . When Jordan left college to accept of a living , Johnson became the scholar of Dr. Adams , who was ...
... language , among whom Pope could never be ranked , have not considered Johnson's Latin poems as the happiest of his compositions . When Jordan left college to accept of a living , Johnson became the scholar of Dr. Adams , who was ...
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... language . In this year also he issued his plan for a " Dictionary of the English lan- guage . " The design of this great work was at first suggested by Dodsley ; and Johnson , having consented to undertake it , entered into an ...
... language . In this year also he issued his plan for a " Dictionary of the English lan- guage . " The design of this great work was at first suggested by Dodsley ; and Johnson , having consented to undertake it , entered into an ...
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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.