The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 10J. Nichols, 1813 - Biography |
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... character ; not being able , or at least not willing , to confine the universality of his genius within one inferior province of learning . Sir Thomas Overbury's murder in the Tower now broke out , at the distance of two years after ...
... character ; not being able , or at least not willing , to confine the universality of his genius within one inferior province of learning . Sir Thomas Overbury's murder in the Tower now broke out , at the distance of two years after ...
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... character , that he was the fittest instrument for a tyrant that ever was in England . " And yet , says Wilson , in the house he called the king's pre- rogative an overgrown monster . Towards the close of 1623 he was nominated , with ...
... character , that he was the fittest instrument for a tyrant that ever was in England . " And yet , says Wilson , in the house he called the king's pre- rogative an overgrown monster . Towards the close of 1623 he was nominated , with ...
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... character than his enemies will admit . After the dissolution of this par- liament , which happened the March following , he retired to his house at Stoke Pogeys in Buckinghamshire , where he spent the remainder of his days ; and there ...
... character than his enemies will admit . After the dissolution of this par- liament , which happened the March following , he retired to his house at Stoke Pogeys in Buckinghamshire , where he spent the remainder of his days ; and there ...
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... character of his writ- ings in general : the particulars of which are as follow . About 1600 were published , in folio , the first part of the Reports of sir Edward Coke , knt . her majesty's attorney- general , of divers resolutions ...
... character of his writ- ings in general : the particulars of which are as follow . About 1600 were published , in folio , the first part of the Reports of sir Edward Coke , knt . her majesty's attorney- general , of divers resolutions ...
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... character of either , as men of sincerity or can- dour . Both were capable of writing polite , and even flat- tering letters to gentlemen , whom in their mutual corre- spondence , perhaps by the same post , they treated with the utmost ...
... character of either , as men of sincerity or can- dour . Both were capable of writing polite , and even flat- tering letters to gentlemen , whom in their mutual corre- spondence , perhaps by the same post , they treated with the utmost ...
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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 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 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 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
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 written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Page 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Page 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Page 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
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.