The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift, المجلد 1R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1753 |
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... Several accomplices in this affair were with him , whom he helped to fupport in their exile , while the ring - leaders , ( except Northampton who was condemned ) procured their own pardon by acknowledging their crime . Mean while ...
... Several accomplices in this affair were with him , whom he helped to fupport in their exile , while the ring - leaders , ( except Northampton who was condemned ) procured their own pardon by acknowledging their crime . Mean while ...
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... a com- pliment to the countefs of Pembroke . Several other ballads are afcribed to him , fome of which are fufpected not to have been his . The come- dies dies imputed to him are no other than his Canterbury GEOFFRY CHAUCER . 15.
... a com- pliment to the countefs of Pembroke . Several other ballads are afcribed to him , fome of which are fufpected not to have been his . The come- dies dies imputed to him are no other than his Canterbury GEOFFRY CHAUCER . 15.
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... the fubfidy , and asked several of the Mem- bers opinion concerning it ; they were all fo con- founded as not to be able to answer , and the House at at laft refolved , that their Speaker fhould reply for Sir THOMAS MORE . 37.
... the fubfidy , and asked several of the Mem- bers opinion concerning it ; they were all fo con- founded as not to be able to answer , and the House at at laft refolved , that their Speaker fhould reply for Sir THOMAS MORE . 37.
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... Several copies of verses were thrown after him into his grave , and his monument was erected at the charge of the famous Robert Devereux , the un- fortunate Earl of Effex . This is the account gi ven by his editor , of the death of ...
... Several copies of verses were thrown after him into his grave , and his monument was erected at the charge of the famous Robert Devereux , the un- fortunate Earl of Effex . This is the account gi ven by his editor , of the death of ...
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... several years before the new edition . Dutch Courtezan , a comedy frequently played at Black Fryars , by the children of the Queen's Re- The late Mr. C. Bullock , a comedian , and fome time ma- nager of Lincoln's - Ian - Fields theatre ...
... several years before the new edition . Dutch Courtezan , a comedy frequently played at Black Fryars , by the children of the Queen's Re- The late Mr. C. Bullock , a comedian , and fome time ma- nager of Lincoln's - Ian - Fields theatre ...
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الصفحة 137 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
الصفحة 94 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
الصفحة 243 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
الصفحة 312 - I know frail beauty like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords; That love a jarring is of minds...
الصفحة 20 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
الصفحة 85 - 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.
الصفحة 292 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
الصفحة 290 - O Pallas, thou hast failed thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword. I warned thee, but in vain, for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far ; Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come.
الصفحة 205 - Two days after their arrival there, Mr. Donne was left alone in that room, in which Sir Robert and he and some other friends had dined together. To -this place Sir Robert returned within half an hour; and as he left, so he found, Mr. Donne alone, but in such an...
الصفحة 137 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.