Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", المجلد 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... engaged on a similar work entitled , Antiquités Russes , ' to prove by scattered passages from the sagas that the Russian monarchy was founded by Scandinavian sea - rovers . In his ' Gronlands Historiske Mindesmærker , ' or ' Historical ...
... engaged on a similar work entitled , Antiquités Russes , ' to prove by scattered passages from the sagas that the Russian monarchy was founded by Scandinavian sea - rovers . In his ' Gronlands Historiske Mindesmærker , ' or ' Historical ...
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... engaged at court to accompany it himself , subscribed 2000l . This attempt also proved abortive , and Gilbert perished on his return in a storm in which his ship foundered . Raleigh , undismayed , obtained for himself in 1584 a patent ...
... engaged at court to accompany it himself , subscribed 2000l . This attempt also proved abortive , and Gilbert perished on his return in a storm in which his ship foundered . Raleigh , undismayed , obtained for himself in 1584 a patent ...
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... engaged as a clerk in a cloth warehouse in London , in which capacity he continued till 1757-58 , when his predilection for other pursuits led him to bind himself for four years to a working mathematical and philosophical instrument ...
... engaged as a clerk in a cloth warehouse in London , in which capacity he continued till 1757-58 , when his predilection for other pursuits led him to bind himself for four years to a working mathematical and philosophical instrument ...
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... engaged in preparing for the press a treatise on geology , containing the substance of his lectures during the five years from 1836 till 1841 , when he was unexpectedly carried off by illness , April 23 , 1841 , in the sixty - sixth ...
... engaged in preparing for the press a treatise on geology , containing the substance of his lectures during the five years from 1836 till 1841 , when he was unexpectedly carried off by illness , April 23 , 1841 , in the sixty - sixth ...
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... engaged in the preparation of an Armenian Dictionary , an Italian , Low Ger- man , and English Grammar . In 1829 he was appointed professor of oriental languages and chief librarian of the university library . Henceforth his attention ...
... engaged in the preparation of an Armenian Dictionary , an Italian , Low Ger- man , and English Grammar . In 1829 he was appointed professor of oriental languages and chief librarian of the university library . Henceforth his attention ...
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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.