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], 1812 - Biography |
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... Latin scholar , and at a time when Italian poetry was in credit , one of those poets who added to the reputation of his age and country . He translated Herodotus from the Greek into Italian , and Apuleius from the Latin . He wrote also ...
... Latin scholar , and at a time when Italian poetry was in credit , one of those poets who added to the reputation of his age and country . He translated Herodotus from the Greek into Italian , and Apuleius from the Latin . He wrote also ...
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... Latin comedies , translated into Italian , were performed . For this theatre Boiardo wrote his " Timon , " taken from a dialogue of Lucian , which may be accounted the first comedy written in Italian . The first edition of it ...
... Latin comedies , translated into Italian , were performed . For this theatre Boiardo wrote his " Timon , " taken from a dialogue of Lucian , which may be accounted the first comedy written in Italian . The first edition of it ...
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... Latin , " lest the bishops , " he said , " should condemn them . " He was not more a friend to the Jesuits than his brother ; and he described them as men who lengthened the creed , and shortened the commandments . " As dean of the ...
... Latin , " lest the bishops , " he said , " should condemn them . " He was not more a friend to the Jesuits than his brother ; and he described them as men who lengthened the creed , and shortened the commandments . " As dean of the ...
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... Latin , and the style is pure and elegant . * 2 BOIS . See DUBOIS and BOYS or BOYSE . BOISROBERT ( FRANÇOIS METEL DE ) , of the French academy , to the establishment whereof he contributed greatly , abbot of Chatilly - sur - Seine , was ...
... Latin , and the style is pure and elegant . * 2 BOIS . See DUBOIS and BOYS or BOYSE . BOISROBERT ( FRANÇOIS METEL DE ) , of the French academy , to the establishment whereof he contributed greatly , abbot of Chatilly - sur - Seine , was ...
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... Latin , dedicated to the late queen Elizabeth . That according thereunto , a complete body of our affairs ; a Corpus Rerum Anglicarum may at last , and from among our ourselves , come happily forth in either of the tongues . A felicity ...
... Latin , dedicated to the late queen Elizabeth . That according thereunto , a complete body of our affairs ; a Corpus Rerum Anglicarum may at last , and from among our ourselves , come happily forth in either of the tongues . A felicity ...
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Page 239 - And with all his drollery there is a mixture of rational and even religious reflection, at times, and always an air of pleasantry, good-nature, and humanity, that makes him, in my mind, one of the most amiable writers in the world.
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Page 239 - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him. I love him too with a love of partiality, because he was usher of the fifth form at Westminster, when I passed through it.
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Page 333 - Boyle communicated memorandums concerning his own life, tells us, that what had the greatest weight in determining his judgment was, " the not feeling within himself any motion or tendency of mind which he could safely esteem a call from the Holy Ghost, and so not venturing to take holy orders, lest he should be found to have lied unto it.
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Page 83 - Booth's peculiar felicity to be heard and seen the same — whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would...
Page 269 - A Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament, in answer to the Objections of the late Lord Bolingbroke ; in Two Letters to a young Nobleman, 1752, 8vo, reprinted in 1753.
Page 84 - Wilks would too frequently break into the time and measure of the harmony by too many spirited accents in one line ; and Booth, by too solemn a regard to harmony, would as often lose the necessary spirit of it : so that (as I have observed) could we have sometimes raised the one and sunk the other, they had both been nearer the mark.