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 ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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... learned gentlemen . A fubfcription was fet on foot for the au- thor ; and he opened a bookfeller's fhop in Edinburgh , which was much frequented . In his advanced years he retired to live privately , and died , 1763 , aged 67. His poems ...
... learned gentlemen . A fubfcription was fet on foot for the au- thor ; and he opened a bookfeller's fhop in Edinburgh , which was much frequented . In his advanced years he retired to live privately , and died , 1763 , aged 67. His poems ...
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... learned of Peru- gino . His pains and care were incredible ; and he fucceeded accordingly . He formed his gufto after the ancient ftatues and bas reliefs , which he defigned a long time with extreme application ; and , befides this , he ...
... learned of Peru- gino . His pains and care were incredible ; and he fucceeded accordingly . He formed his gufto after the ancient ftatues and bas reliefs , which he defigned a long time with extreme application ; and , befides this , he ...
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... learned works of Plantin , to which he was too modest to affix his name , were fufficient to have tranfmitted him with honour to pofterity . He died the 20th of July , 1597 . RAPIN ( NICOLAS ) , born at Poitou , and RAPIN RAPHAEL . 9 ...
... learned works of Plantin , to which he was too modest to affix his name , were fufficient to have tranfmitted him with honour to pofterity . He died the 20th of July , 1597 . RAPIN ( NICOLAS ) , born at Poitou , and RAPIN RAPHAEL . 9 ...
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... learned and honeft counfellor at law Robert Rawlinfon , of Clark Hall in Cartmell in Lancashire , and of Gray's Inn in Middlefex , etq . His great integrity , joined with a pro- found knowledge of the law , made him esteemed and admired ...
... learned and honeft counfellor at law Robert Rawlinfon , of Clark Hall in Cartmell in Lancashire , and of Gray's Inn in Middlefex , etq . His great integrity , joined with a pro- found knowledge of the law , made him esteemed and admired ...
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... learned men of every country who were his contemporaries ; and , at the time of his death , which happened in Paris in his 84th year , in March , 1796 , he was preparing a new edition of all his works , in which there were to have been ...
... learned men of every country who were his contemporaries ; and , at the time of his death , which happened in Paris in his 84th year , in March , 1796 , he was preparing a new edition of all his works , in which there were to have been ...
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Seite 126 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners generous as his noble blood ; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own.
Seite 330 - ... they did not doubt of Mr. Selden's affection to the king, but withal they knew him so well, that they concluded he would absolutely refuse the place, if it were offered to him. He was in years, and of a tender constitution ; he had for many years enjoyed his ease, which he loved ; was rich ; and would not have made a journey to York, or have lain out of his own bed, for any preferment ; which he had never affected.
Seite 332 - ... his humanity, courtesy, and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
Seite 69 - Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness.
Seite 332 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
Seite 332 - Hyde was wont to say that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young...
Seite 192 - Marlborough was raised to the head of the army, and indeed of the confederacy, where he, a new, a private man, a subject, acquired by merit and by management a more deciding influence, than high birth, confirmed authority, and even the crown of Great Britain, had given to King William.
Seite 68 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Seite 365 - Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold, We ftill defy'd the Romans, as of old. Yet fome there were, among the founder few Of thofe who lefs prefum'd, and better knew, 71* Who durft aflert the jufter ancient caufe, And here reftor'd Wit's fundamental laws. Such was the Mufe, whofe rules and praftice tell| " Nature's chief Mafter-piece is writing well.
Seite 196 - Gualtier, who was -an emissary of France. Fifthly, that he disclosed to the French the manner how Tournay in Flanders might be gained by them. And lastly, that he advised and promoted the yielding up Spain and the West Indies to the Duke of Anjou, then an enemy to her majesty.