Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", المجلد 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... Lord Eldon , Sir Walter Scott , Dugald Stewart , Professor Playfair , James Watt , Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , John Rennie , and Sir Francis Chantrey . His style was free and bold , his drawing correct , his colouring rich ...
... Lord Eldon , Sir Walter Scott , Dugald Stewart , Professor Playfair , James Watt , Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , John Rennie , and Sir Francis Chantrey . His style was free and bold , his drawing correct , his colouring rich ...
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... Lord Minto , governor- general of India , who sent for him to Calcutta , and was anxious to place him in the government of the Moluccas . Other events however interfered with this intention , for Raffles so strongly represented to Lord ...
... Lord Minto , governor- general of India , who sent for him to Calcutta , and was anxious to place him in the government of the Moluccas . Other events however interfered with this intention , for Raffles so strongly represented to Lord ...
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... Lord FITZROY SOMERSET ) , was the younger son of Henry , fifth duke of Beau- fort , by Elizabeth , daughter of Admiral the Hon . E. Boscawen , and was born in 1788. He received his early education at Westminster School , but before ...
... Lord FITZROY SOMERSET ) , was the younger son of Henry , fifth duke of Beau- fort , by Elizabeth , daughter of Admiral the Hon . E. Boscawen , and was born in 1788. He received his early education at Westminster School , but before ...
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... Lord Deputy Gray and Raleigh , the latter was called upon to defend himself before the council , which he did with so much ability and grace that he gained the queen's ear . The romantic incident which tradition gives as the origin of ...
... Lord Deputy Gray and Raleigh , the latter was called upon to defend himself before the council , which he did with so much ability and grace that he gained the queen's ear . The romantic incident which tradition gives as the origin of ...
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... Lord Mount Edgecombe , whose influence procured him introductions to distinguished naval officers of that port , amongst whom was Captain ( afterwards Admiral Lord ) Keppel , a connection that proved subsequently most valuable to him ...
... Lord Mount Edgecombe , whose influence procured him introductions to distinguished naval officers of that port , amongst whom was Captain ( afterwards Admiral Lord ) Keppel , a connection that proved subsequently most valuable to him ...
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الصفحة 453 - Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
الصفحة 451 - ... if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
الصفحة 451 - For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
الصفحة 455 - The humour of ... the constable, in A Midsummer Night's Dreame, he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks, which is the roade from London to Stratford, and there was living that constable about 1642, when I first came to Oxon.
الصفحة 267 - Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer...
الصفحة 451 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him.
الصفحة 97 - Half a Dozen of them when met to work with their Needles, used, when they got a Book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their Mothers sometimes with them; and both Mothers and Daughters used to be pleased with the Observations they put me upon making.
الصفحة 445 - Steevens, the most acute, and perhaps the most learned, of his commentators, stated, long before, that " all that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is — that he was • born at Stratford-upon-Avon — married and had children there — went to London, where he commenced actor and wrote poems and plays — returned to Stratford, made his will, died, and was buried.
الصفحة 449 - ... as gentlemen. His father, who was a considerable dealer in wool, had so large a family, ten children in all, that though he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
الصفحة 39 - The Whole Booke of Psalmes : With the Hymnes Evangelicall and Songs Spirituall. Composed into 4 parts by Sundry Authors with severall Tunes as have been and are usually sung in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands : Never as yet before in one Volume published.