The 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 to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 - Biography |
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... Present Time.. Henry . " Whatever were the causes of his disgrace , which it is probable were many , he was brought upon his knees before the council at Whitehall , June 1616 ; and offences were charged upon him by Yelverton , the ...
... Present Time.. Henry . " Whatever were the causes of his disgrace , which it is probable were many , he was brought upon his knees before the council at Whitehall , June 1616 ; and offences were charged upon him by Yelverton , the ...
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... Present Time.. ment . He was wont to say , that " matter lay in a little room ; " and in his pleadings he was concise , though in set speeches and in his writings too diffuse . He was cer- tainly a great master of his profession , as ...
... Present Time.. ment . He was wont to say , that " matter lay in a little room ; " and in his pleadings he was concise , though in set speeches and in his writings too diffuse . He was cer- tainly a great master of his profession , as ...
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... Present Time.. pation ; but afterwards traded in cloth , and at last in silk . Our Colbert was instructed in the arts of merchandize , and afterwards became clerk to a notary . In 1648 his relation John Baptist Colbert , lord of S ...
... Present Time.. pation ; but afterwards traded in cloth , and at last in silk . Our Colbert was instructed in the arts of merchandize , and afterwards became clerk to a notary . In 1648 his relation John Baptist Colbert , lord of S ...
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... Present Time.. proposal to see them was the consequence ; accordingly , he breakfasted here next morning ; and on a slight offer of accommodating him with such heads as he had not , he absolutely has taken one hundred and eighty - seven ...
... Present Time.. proposal to see them was the consequence ; accordingly , he breakfasted here next morning ; and on a slight offer of accommodating him with such heads as he had not , he absolutely has taken one hundred and eighty - seven ...
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... Present Time.. to quit this situation , but acquired the preferable appoint- ment of clerk to the East India company , which he pro- bably held to his death , at London , in October 1688 , ' upwards of eighty years old . He is known to ...
... Present Time.. to quit this situation , but acquired the preferable appoint- ment of clerk to the East India company , which he pro- bably held to his death , at London , in October 1688 , ' upwards of eighty years old . He is known to ...
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Page 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 161 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 50 - It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Page 161 - And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and...
Page 161 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
Page 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.