The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1813 - Biography |
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... appears to have been really true ; so true , that many to this day esteem this last speech , especially , his master- piece . It was probably in reward for this service , that 2 COKE . bert the last, that of a kingdom thought to ...
... appears to have been really true ; so true , that many to this day esteem this last speech , especially , his master- piece . It was probably in reward for this service , that 2 COKE . bert the last, that of a kingdom thought to ...
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... piece of service ; and perceiving him inattentive and inflexible , threw herself at his feet , in the presence of above an hundred persons , cry- ing , " I beg your greatness , in the name of God , to grant me this favour ! " Upon which ...
... piece of service ; and perceiving him inattentive and inflexible , threw herself at his feet , in the presence of above an hundred persons , cry- ing , " I beg your greatness , in the name of God , to grant me this favour ! " Upon which ...
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... pieces , enumerated in the account of his Life by Knight . It is probable that he had no intention of publishing any thing himself ; for he had an inaccuracy and incorrectness in his way of writing , which was likely to expose him to ...
... pieces , enumerated in the account of his Life by Knight . It is probable that he had no intention of publishing any thing himself ; for he had an inaccuracy and incorrectness in his way of writing , which was likely to expose him to ...
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... piece of advice which he gave that prince , to take care of what he did in assigning the appanage , lest by so doing he left them too great an authority . Catherine caused this article to be read before the duke of Alençon , whom she ...
... piece of advice which he gave that prince , to take care of what he did in assigning the appanage , lest by so doing he left them too great an authority . Catherine caused this article to be read before the duke of Alençon , whom she ...
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... pieces of his policy . Coligni was an honest man . Guise wore the mask of a greater number of virtues ; but all were infected by his ambition . He had all the qualities that win the heart of the multitude . Coligni , more collected in ...
... pieces of his policy . Coligni was an honest man . Guise wore the mask of a greater number of virtues ; but all were infected by his ambition . He had all the qualities that win the heart of the multitude . Coligni , more collected in ...
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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.