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], 1814 - Biography |
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... lived and among the rest , of Dante and Petrarch . He drew , as already noticed , the picture of the former ; and the latter mentions him in his will , and in one of his familiar epistles . Giotto is said to have been the inventor of ...
... lived and among the rest , of Dante and Petrarch . He drew , as already noticed , the picture of the former ; and the latter mentions him in his will , and in one of his familiar epistles . Giotto is said to have been the inventor of ...
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... lived some time . H was then obliged to shelter himself in the house of the prince of Mirandula , a relation of the great Picus , but had the misfortune to lose this protector in 1533 , who was assassinated in a conspiracy headed by his ...
... lived some time . H was then obliged to shelter himself in the house of the prince of Mirandula , a relation of the great Picus , but had the misfortune to lose this protector in 1533 , who was assassinated in a conspiracy headed by his ...
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... lived a little longer , Glanvil's expectations would , no doubt , have been fully answered ; since according to Wood , he entirely complied with the principles of the then prevailing party , to whom his very prompt pen must needs have ...
... lived a little longer , Glanvil's expectations would , no doubt , have been fully answered ; since according to Wood , he entirely complied with the principles of the then prevailing party , to whom his very prompt pen must needs have ...
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... lived as if he had been bred a disciple of Socrates , or companion of Aristides . Hence his poli- tical turn of mind , hence his unwarped affection and active zeal for the rights and liberties of his country . Hence his heartfelt ...
... lived as if he had been bred a disciple of Socrates , or companion of Aristides . Hence his poli- tical turn of mind , hence his unwarped affection and active zeal for the rights and liberties of his country . Hence his heartfelt ...
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... lived in , or the station he occupied . His comparisons , as lord Lyttelton remarks , are original and striking , although sometimes not sufficiently dignified . His descriptions are minutely faithful , and his episodes are in general ...
... lived in , or the station he occupied . His comparisons , as lord Lyttelton remarks , are original and striking , although sometimes not sufficiently dignified . His descriptions are minutely faithful , and his episodes are in general ...
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Page 318 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
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Page 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Page 317 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Page 318 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
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Page 404 - In those very writings which Grotius is gravely blamed for having quoted. The usages and laws of nations, the events of history, the opinions of philosophers, the sentiments of orators and poets, as well as the observation of common life, are, in truth, the materials out of which the science of morality is formed ; and those who neglect them are justly chargeable with a vain attempt to philosophize without regard to fact and experience, the sole foundation of all true philosophy.
Page 169 - Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.
Page 309 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.