The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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... leave it to his conduct ; and , having farther affured him of the entire confidence he repofed in him , difmiffed him . The archbishop immediately fent down his vicar - general and principal regiftary to Can- terbury , to make a ...
... leave it to his conduct ; and , having farther affured him of the entire confidence he repofed in him , difmiffed him . The archbishop immediately fent down his vicar - general and principal regiftary to Can- terbury , to make a ...
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... leave to go to Rome , and juftify the reformation to the pope's face . But this was only a mock - citation , for he was kept all that time close confined ; and yet , at the end of fourfcore days , was declared con- tumax , for wilfully ...
... leave to go to Rome , and juftify the reformation to the pope's face . But this was only a mock - citation , for he was kept all that time close confined ; and yet , at the end of fourfcore days , was declared con- tumax , for wilfully ...
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... leave of his friends , he was bound to the ftake . As foon as the fire was kindled , he ftretched forth his right arm , and held it , ftedfaftly and without fhrinking , in the flame ( only once he wiped his face with it ) till it was ...
... leave of his friends , he was bound to the ftake . As foon as the fire was kindled , he ftretched forth his right arm , and held it , ftedfaftly and without fhrinking , in the flame ( only once he wiped his face with it ) till it was ...
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... leave the ceremonies of his obfequies , clearly , circumftancially , and me- thodically fet down : but this was an age , when there was more attention paid to fight than to all the reft of the tentes , and more money beftowed , and more ...
... leave the ceremonies of his obfequies , clearly , circumftancially , and me- thodically fet down : but this was an age , when there was more attention paid to fight than to all the reft of the tentes , and more money beftowed , and more ...
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... leave to wear fuch a habit and robes as were fuitable to his birth , and to be admited into the public library . Some time afterwards he entered into deacon's or- ders ; and , on the nineteenth of March , 1517 , was made prebendary of ...
... leave to wear fuch a habit and robes as were fuitable to his birth , and to be admited into the public library . Some time afterwards he entered into deacon's or- ders ; and , on the nineteenth of March , 1517 , was made prebendary of ...
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الصفحة 91 - he raifes up a hero for every one of his adventures, and endows each of them with fome particular moral virtue, which renders them all equal, without fubordination, or preference : every one is valiant in his own legend; only we muft do him the juftice to obferve, that magnanimity, which is the
الصفحة 91 - remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece ; but could not have been perfeft, becaufe the model was not true. But prince Arthur, or his chief patron, Sir Philip Sidney, dying before him, deprived the poet both of means and
الصفحة 91 - thick upon us, that we are at once pleafed and diftra&ed with the inexhauftible variety of them ; fo that his faults may, in a manner, be imputed to his excellencies. His abundance betrays him into excefs; and his judgment is overborn by the torrent of his imagination. That which feems the
الصفحة 91 - and Milton in heroic poetry, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfeft poets, and yet both of them are liable to many cenfures ; for there is no uniformity in the defign of
الصفحة 51 - not called him ; meaning, that he would .do nothing without a lawful vocation. Hereupon they deliberating the matter in a confultation with Sir David Lindfay, of the Mount, lyon king at arms, a perfon of great probity and learning, it was concluded to give Mr.
الصفحة 91 - of prince Arthur, mines throughout the whole poem, and fuccours the reft when they are in diftrefs. The original of every knight was then living in the court of queen Elizabeth,
الصفحة 90 - of an epie poem. His execution was excellent, and his flights of fancy very noble and high. But his defign was poor ; and his moral lay fo bare,. that it loft the
الصفحة 8 - fpy, got a copy of the original letter, which was ftolen out of the pope's cabinet by a gentleman of the bedchamber, who took the key out of the pope's pocket while he flept. After this, by his dextrous management, he caufed the Spaniards bills to be
الصفحة 89 - nought, but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinn'd and patched was The which his naked fides he wrapt abouts; And him befide, there lay upon the grafs A dreary corfe, whofe life away did
الصفحة 91 - by the torrent of his imagination. That which feems the moft liable to exception, in this work, is the model of it, and the choice the author has made of fo romantic a ftory. The feveral books rather