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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... father and grand- fixed to father dwelt there , and were perfons of good fubftance and Stow's Sur- credit . There is no account of any circumstances relating to vey of Lon- don , printed his youth , except that he was bred to his father's ...
... father and grand- fixed to father dwelt there , and were perfons of good fubftance and Stow's Sur- credit . There is no account of any circumstances relating to vey of Lon- don , printed his youth , except that he was bred to his father's ...
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... father's prejudices ( in which he was educated ) in favour of thofe vifionaries the French prophets , by whom he was eaten up and betrayed . Mr. Straight married the daughter of Mr. Davenport , vicar of Broad Hinton , Wiits , whom he ...
... father's prejudices ( in which he was educated ) in favour of thofe vifionaries the French prophets , by whom he was eaten up and betrayed . Mr. Straight married the daughter of Mr. Davenport , vicar of Broad Hinton , Wiits , whom he ...
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... father's death and various domeftic avocations prevented it . He ftudied anatomy under Mr. Rolfe the furgeon ; attended the chemical lectures of Signor Vigani ; and , taking the degree of M. B. in 1709 , made himself acquainted with the ...
... father's death and various domeftic avocations prevented it . He ftudied anatomy under Mr. Rolfe the furgeon ; attended the chemical lectures of Signor Vigani ; and , taking the degree of M. B. in 1709 , made himself acquainted with the ...
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... father was one of thefe , and conceived fuch ftrong apprehenfions , that when the report of the court of Navatre's journey to Pa- ris firft reached him , he could not give credid to it . Firm- ly perfuaded that the prefent calm would be ...
... father was one of thefe , and conceived fuch ftrong apprehenfions , that when the report of the court of Navatre's journey to Pa- ris firft reached him , he could not give credid to it . Firm- ly perfuaded that the prefent calm would be ...
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... father , fufpected the defigns of the court ; and had fuch convinceing proofs , that they quitted the court , and Paris itself , or at leaft lodged in the fuburbs . They warned prince Henry to be cautious ; but he liftened to nothing ...
... father , fufpected the defigns of the court ; and had fuch convinceing proofs , that they quitted the court , and Paris itself , or at leaft lodged in the fuburbs . They warned prince Henry to be cautious ; but he liftened to nothing ...
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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.