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], 1813 - Biography |
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... lived at Rheims in Champaigne , originally from Scotland ( the Cuthberts ) , but at that time no way considerable for its splendour . His grandfather is said to have been a wine- merchant , and his father at first followed the same occu ...
... lived at Rheims in Champaigne , originally from Scotland ( the Cuthberts ) , but at that time no way considerable for its splendour . His grandfather is said to have been a wine- merchant , and his father at first followed the same occu ...
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... 1695 , and in English , 1695 , 8vo . - Moreri . - Dict . Hist . Perrault Les Hommes Illustres . works , with whom he had lived in habits of ❤ 2 COLBERT . 19 ciously of every thing after he had once comprehended it...
... 1695 , and in English , 1695 , 8vo . - Moreri . - Dict . Hist . Perrault Les Hommes Illustres . works , with whom he had lived in habits of ❤ 2 COLBERT . 19 ciously of every thing after he had once comprehended it...
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... lived in habits of friendship for near half a century . Mr. Jenyns , who died in 1787 , bequeathed to him the copy - right of all his published works , and consigned to his care all his literary papers , with a desire that he would ...
... lived in habits of friendship for near half a century . Mr. Jenyns , who died in 1787 , bequeathed to him the copy - right of all his published works , and consigned to his care all his literary papers , with a desire that he would ...
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... lived to effect an exchange . Having been an early and intimate acquaintance of Mr. Horace Walpole , the late earl of Orford , they went to France together in 1765 , Mr. Walpole to enjoy the gaieties of that country , but Mr. Cole to ...
... lived to effect an exchange . Having been an early and intimate acquaintance of Mr. Horace Walpole , the late earl of Orford , they went to France together in 1765 , Mr. Walpole to enjoy the gaieties of that country , but Mr. Cole to ...
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... lived several years , and became the most famous simpler or botanist of his time . In 1656 he published " The art of simpling , or an intro- duction to the knowledge of gathering plants , wherein the definitions , divisions , places ...
... lived several years , and became the most famous simpler or botanist of his time . In 1656 he published " The art of simpling , or an intro- duction to the knowledge of gathering plants , wherein the definitions , divisions , places ...
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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 chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
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 50 - It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Page 161 - 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 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...
Page 161 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
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.