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 - Biography |
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... hand of their master . They have suffered martyrdom more than once . It is well that the nature of the subject per- mitted little more than fresco in the colouring at first , and that the great merit of their execution consisted in that ...
... hand of their master . They have suffered martyrdom more than once . It is well that the nature of the subject per- mitted little more than fresco in the colouring at first , and that the great merit of their execution consisted in that ...
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... hand , admitted me ; and my friend carried me to his apartment , where two inhuman priests , whom I heard mention Sicilian vespers , wanted to force me from him , that they might cut me in pieces ; saying , the order was , not to spare ...
... hand , admitted me ; and my friend carried me to his apartment , where two inhuman priests , whom I heard mention Sicilian vespers , wanted to force me from him , that they might cut me in pieces ; saying , the order was , not to spare ...
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... hands , and to have shot at the poor Huguenots as they at- tempted to escape . The court of Rome did all they could to confirm the Parisians in this horrid notion : for though Pope Pius V. is said to have been so much afflicted at the ...
... hands , and to have shot at the poor Huguenots as they at- tempted to escape . The court of Rome did all they could to confirm the Parisians in this horrid notion : for though Pope Pius V. is said to have been so much afflicted at the ...
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... hand in those that were formed to take away the government from Catharine de Medicis , and to expel the Guises from court ; which that queen discovering , caused him and the duke of Alençon to be arrested , set guards upon them , and ...
... hand in those that were formed to take away the government from Catharine de Medicis , and to expel the Guises from court ; which that queen discovering , caused him and the duke of Alençon to be arrested , set guards upon them , and ...
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... hands the interest of this house , and the frenzy of religion , had put the dagger more than once . " Henry was murdered the 17th of May , 1610 ; and , it appears , had many presages of his cruel destiny , which , Sully tells us ...
... hands the interest of this house , and the frenzy of religion , had put the dagger more than once . " Henry was murdered the 17th of May , 1610 ; and , it appears , had many presages of his cruel destiny , which , Sully tells us ...
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Page 319 - Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Page 365 - ... never heard a single word of it till on this occasion.' This surprise of Dr. Young, together with what Steele has said against Tickell in relation to this affair, make it highly probable that there was some underhand dealing in that business; and indeed Tickell himself, who is a very fair worthy man, has since, in a manner, as good as owned it to me.
Page 253 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Page 320 - The great defect of the Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images and thoughts, " both their lustre and their shade:" such as invest them with splendour, through...
Page 365 - Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad, I met Dr. Young in the street; and, upon our falling into that subject, the Doctor expressed a great deal of surprise at Tickell's having had such a translation so long by him.
Page 63 - ... state, in order to put it out of the power of slander to be busy with her fame after death, she adjured him by their friendship to let her have the satisfaction of dying at least, though she had not lived, his acknowledged wife.
Page 108 - It is a singular fact that the will of the donor was made on the very day on which the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the College, Mr.
Page 319 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life, with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Page 188 - The only work Taylor published, was the " History of Gavelkind, with the etymology thereof; containing also an assertion, that our English laws are, for the most part, those that were used by the ancient Brytains, notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans* With some observations and remarks upon many especial occurrences of British and English history. To which is added, a short history of William the conqueror, written in Latin by an anonymous author in the...
Page 334 - ... be disposed to consider as an insult. The Ode for St. Cecilia's day above mentioned was another effort of the burlesque kind, from Mr. THORNTON'S sportive muse, and afforded much entertainment. The sternest muscles must relax where it is read. It was professedly adapted to " the ancient British Music,