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], 1815 |
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... given of the place and manner of his death . According to some authors , he died by voluntary abstinence . One tradition says , that he lived to a good old age in Crete , and dying a natural death , his body was burned , according to ...
... given of the place and manner of his death . According to some authors , he died by voluntary abstinence . One tradition says , that he lived to a good old age in Crete , and dying a natural death , his body was burned , according to ...
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... given a list of two hundred and fifty - one , some of which he ad- mits may not be Lydgate's , but he supposes , on the other hand , that he may be the author of many others that are anonymous . His most esteemed works are his " Story ...
... given a list of two hundred and fifty - one , some of which he ad- mits may not be Lydgate's , but he supposes , on the other hand , that he may be the author of many others that are anonymous . His most esteemed works are his " Story ...
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... in gratitude for his assistance in procuring his re- lease , This may be given as a proof that what is afterwards reported of his non - conformity has very little founda tion . not enough , it would appear , to gain their 8 LYDIA T.
... in gratitude for his assistance in procuring his re- lease , This may be given as a proof that what is afterwards reported of his non - conformity has very little founda tion . not enough , it would appear , to gain their 8 LYDIA T.
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... given to that unpublished work . In the seventh year from the commencement of his design , he published the work , with many additions , and particularly that of an Anglo - Saxon Grammar prefixed . The work was received with the utmost ...
... given to that unpublished work . In the seventh year from the commencement of his design , he published the work , with many additions , and particularly that of an Anglo - Saxon Grammar prefixed . The work was received with the utmost ...
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... given in Dr. Johnson's words , has been thought too scanty praise . In truth , it is no praise at all , but an assertion , and not a just one , that lord Lyttelton " solaced his grief " by writ- ing the poem . The praise or blame was ...
... given in Dr. Johnson's words , has been thought too scanty praise . In truth , it is no praise at all , but an assertion , and not a just one , that lord Lyttelton " solaced his grief " by writ- ing the poem . The praise or blame was ...
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Página 325 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Página 79 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 66 - A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION From the Original Greek, OF ALL THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES, WITH A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical.
Página 286 - ... her try if he had forgot his psalms, by naming any one she would have him repeat; and by casting her eye over it she would know if he was right...
Página 423 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Página 223 - BENEFITS. With an ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. And A Search into the Nature of Society.
Página 390 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 449 - A short account of the parish of Waterbeach, in the diocese of Ely, by a late Vicar...
Página 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.