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], 1816 |
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... poet , but better known as a writer of novels , was born at Florence about 1335 , of an ancient family , some branches of which had held employments of great trust and dignity in the repub- lic . While young he composed some amatory ...
... poet , but better known as a writer of novels , was born at Florence about 1335 , of an ancient family , some branches of which had held employments of great trust and dignity in the repub- lic . While young he composed some amatory ...
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... poet , and the pro- priety , consistency , and effect of the whole drama . His accompaniments , though always rich and ingenious , never call off attention from the voice , but by a constant trans- parency , the principal melody is ...
... poet , and the pro- priety , consistency , and effect of the whole drama . His accompaniments , though always rich and ingenious , never call off attention from the voice , but by a constant trans- parency , the principal melody is ...
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... Poets , " dated April 4 , 1694 , in a fare- well - poem to the Muses on his intending to enter into holy orders , was inscribed " to Mr. Henry Sacheverell , " his then dearest friend and colleague . Much has been said by Sacheverell's ...
... Poets , " dated April 4 , 1694 , in a fare- well - poem to the Muses on his intending to enter into holy orders , was inscribed " to Mr. Henry Sacheverell , " his then dearest friend and colleague . Much has been said by Sacheverell's ...
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... poet , was born at Withy- am in Sussex , in 1527. He was the son of sir Richard Sackville , who died in 1566 , by Winifred Brydges ( after- wards marchioness of Winchester ) , and grandson of John Sackville , esq . who died in 1557 , by ...
... poet , was born at Withy- am in Sussex , in 1527. He was the son of sir Richard Sackville , who died in 1566 , by Winifred Brydges ( after- wards marchioness of Winchester ) , and grandson of John Sackville , esq . who died in 1557 , by ...
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... poet , declares , that " the dawn of our English poetry was in Chaucer's time , but that it shone out in him too bright all at once to last long . The succeeding age was dark and overcast . There was indeed some glimmerings of genius ...
... poet , declares , that " the dawn of our English poetry was in Chaucer's time , but that it shone out in him too bright all at once to last long . The succeeding age was dark and overcast . There was indeed some glimmerings of genius ...
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Page 440 - What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.
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Page 329 - ... reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst times, which his age obliged him to do; and how wicked soever the actions were which were every day done, he was confident he had not given his consent to them; but would have hindered them if he could with his own safety, to which he was always enough indulgent. If he had some infirmities with other men, they were weighed down with wonderful and prodigious abilities and excellencies in the...
Page 283 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Page 329 - 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; and held it with great delight as long as they were suffered to continue together in London ; and he was very much troubled always when he heard him blamed, censured, and reproached, for staying in London, and in the parliament, after they were in rebellion, and in the worst...
Page 27 - Act), by which all dissenting ministers, who would not take an oath, that it was not lawful, upon any pretence whatever, to take arms against the king...
Page 445 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
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