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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... some of his younger days . Upon his return he entered himfelf in the Inner Temple , where he ftudied the municipal laws of the land . But he had not long profecuted that dry , ftudy , till his fuperior abilities were taken notice of by ...
... some of his younger days . Upon his return he entered himfelf in the Inner Temple , where he ftudied the municipal laws of the land . But he had not long profecuted that dry , ftudy , till his fuperior abilities were taken notice of by ...
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... Some fiy , that Pope Gregory IX gave orders to the arch- bishop of Canterbury to fummon him , and that when a fynod was convened at St. Paul's , a quarrel happened between the bishop of London and the duke of Lancaster , concerning Wick ...
... Some fiy , that Pope Gregory IX gave orders to the arch- bishop of Canterbury to fummon him , and that when a fynod was convened at St. Paul's , a quarrel happened between the bishop of London and the duke of Lancaster , concerning Wick ...
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... Some of mortalitie nobly dyd endyte . His other works are chiefly thefe : Meditations on St. Ann . on the Virgin of Kent . Sonnets on Dame Anne , Elyner Rummin , the famous alewife of Endland . Often reprinted . C 3 The The ...
... Some of mortalitie nobly dyd endyte . His other works are chiefly thefe : Meditations on St. Ann . on the Virgin of Kent . Sonnets on Dame Anne , Elyner Rummin , the famous alewife of Endland . Often reprinted . C 3 The The ...
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... Some time after his condemnation , Mr. fecretary Cromwel waited on Sir Thomas , and entreated him to accept his Majefty's pardon , upon the condition of taking the oath , and expreffed great tenderness towards him . This vifit , and ...
... Some time after his condemnation , Mr. fecretary Cromwel waited on Sir Thomas , and entreated him to accept his Majefty's pardon , upon the condition of taking the oath , and expreffed great tenderness towards him . This vifit , and ...
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... Some of his Biographers ( Mrs. Cooper and Winstanley ) fay that he died of the plague as he was going on an embaffy to the Emperor Charles V. but Wood afferts , that he was only fent to Falmo by the King to meet the Spanish ambaffador ...
... Some of his Biographers ( Mrs. Cooper and Winstanley ) fay that he died of the plague as he was going on an embaffy to the Emperor Charles V. but Wood afferts , that he was only fent to Falmo by the King to meet the Spanish ambaffador ...
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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.