The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, المجلد 31Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1817 |
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... royal cause ; and , in her old age , meeting somewhere with Wal- ler , asked him , when he would again write such verses * " When he was a briske young sparke , and first studyed poetry , ' Me- thought , ' said he , I never sawe a good ...
... royal cause ; and , in her old age , meeting somewhere with Wal- ler , asked him , when he would again write such verses * " When he was a briske young sparke , and first studyed poetry , ' Me- thought , ' said he , I never sawe a good ...
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... lamented that he did not act with spirit and uni- formity . When the Commons began to set the royal au- thority at open defiance , Waller is said to have withdrawn from the House , and to have returned with the WALLE R. 9.
... lamented that he did not act with spirit and uni- formity . When the Commons began to set the royal au- thority at open defiance , Waller is said to have withdrawn from the House , and to have returned with the WALLE R. 9.
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... royal cause arose from his sensibility of the king's tenderness . Of Waller's conduct at Oxford we have no account . The attempt , just mentioned , known by the name of Waller's plot , was soon afterwards discovered . Waller had a ...
... royal cause arose from his sensibility of the king's tenderness . Of Waller's conduct at Oxford we have no account . The attempt , just mentioned , known by the name of Waller's plot , was soon afterwards discovered . Waller had a ...
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... royal exchange , raised a regiment and commanded it . ject appears to have been to raise a military force , but his design and Waller's appear to have been totally distinct . • His ob- The discovery of Waller's design is variously ...
... royal exchange , raised a regiment and commanded it . ject appears to have been to raise a military force , but his design and Waller's appear to have been totally distinct . • His ob- The discovery of Waller's design is variously ...
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... royal cause , and , when Cromwell visited her used to re- proach him ; he , in return , would throw a napkin at her , and say he would not dispute with his aunt ; but finding in time that she acted for the king as well as talked , he ...
... royal cause , and , when Cromwell visited her used to re- proach him ; he , in return , would throw a napkin at her , and say he would not dispute with his aunt ; but finding in time that she acted for the king as well as talked , he ...
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الصفحة 69 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
الصفحة 402 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
الصفحة 251 - Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to sooth his mind, and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
الصفحة 119 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
الصفحة 89 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
الصفحة 297 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
الصفحة 440 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
الصفحة 165 - Master William Warner, a man of good yeares and of honest reputation ; by his profession an atturnye of the Common Pleas ; author of...
الصفحة 436 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
الصفحة 336 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet...