A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period ...W. Strahan, 1784 |
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الصفحة 69
... say , because his original intention was not to marry her at all : he never fuffered his behaviour towards females to exceed the limits of Platonic love ; and the innocence of his com- merce with Vaneffa feems now to be acknowledged by ...
... say , because his original intention was not to marry her at all : he never fuffered his behaviour towards females to exceed the limits of Platonic love ; and the innocence of his com- merce with Vaneffa feems now to be acknowledged by ...
الصفحة 73
... say , " that " none defpifed this talent , but those who were without " it . " He alfo greatly excelled in telling a story , but in the latter part of his life ufed to tell them too often : he never dealt in the double entendre , or ...
... say , " that " none defpifed this talent , but those who were without " it . " He alfo greatly excelled in telling a story , but in the latter part of his life ufed to tell them too often : he never dealt in the double entendre , or ...
الصفحة 83
... say , " with tolerable credit ; and this has made fome imagine , " that I am fit to be a bishop . But they have not con- " fidered , with what difficulty the mind acquires a new bent ; that is , adapts itself to a province it has ...
... say , " with tolerable credit ; and this has made fome imagine , " that I am fit to be a bishop . But they have not con- " fidered , with what difficulty the mind acquires a new bent ; that is , adapts itself to a province it has ...
الصفحة 102
... him well , and faid he was remarkable for a down- caft look , and had feldom much to say for himself . Oldys allo alfo defcribes him as a free , good - natured 102 TAS SO . "miferies and woes. Banished from his own country...
... him well , and faid he was remarkable for a down- caft look , and had feldom much to say for himself . Oldys allo alfo defcribes him as a free , good - natured 102 TAS SO . "miferies and woes. Banished from his own country...
الصفحة 173
... says , " An humble man fubmits , fufpects his " own judgement , hath a venerable esteem for his fuperi- 64 ors ; if startled by any conftitutions in church and state , " he frequently prays , feriously difcourfes , modeftly coun- " fels ...
... says , " An humble man fubmits , fufpects his " own judgement , hath a venerable esteem for his fuperi- 64 ors ; if startled by any conftitutions in church and state , " he frequently prays , feriously difcourfes , modeftly coun- " fels ...
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الصفحة 341 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
الصفحة 341 - Villiers lies— alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
الصفحة 341 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
الصفحة 435 - ... perspicacity. 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 180 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet : the eye that...
الصفحة 453 - Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
الصفحة 435 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity.
الصفحة 336 - If he had an immoderate ambition, with which he was charged, and is a weed (if it be a weed) apt to grow in the best soils ; it doth not appear that it was in his nature, or that he brought it with him to the court, but rather found it there, and was a garment necessary for that air.
الصفحة 396 - Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.
الصفحة 36 - ... beginning to use me ill, when, happily for me, the book that I carried was perceived, and served me for a passport.