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 |
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... tion from this letter already ; we will here give the remain- der of it for though perhaps it was not very generous in Bacon to write such a letter at such a season , even to a professed adversary , yet it will serve to illustrate the ...
... tion from this letter already ; we will here give the remain- der of it for though perhaps it was not very generous in Bacon to write such a letter at such a season , even to a professed adversary , yet it will serve to illustrate the ...
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... tion , though accompanied with high expressions of kind- ness and confidence , was made with no other view but to get him out of the way for fear he should be troublesome , but he remained firm in his opinions , nor does it appear that ...
... tion , though accompanied with high expressions of kind- ness and confidence , was made with no other view but to get him out of the way for fear he should be troublesome , but he remained firm in his opinions , nor does it appear that ...
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... tion , his correspondent Horace Walpole writes to him in the following style , which is not an unfair specimen of the manner in which these correspondents treated their con- temporaries : - " I have had a relapse ( of the gout ) , and ...
... tion , his correspondent Horace Walpole writes to him in the following style , which is not an unfair specimen of the manner in which these correspondents treated their con- temporaries : - " I have had a relapse ( of the gout ) , and ...
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... tion suitable to his purpose , and transcribed many MS lists , records , & c . The grand interval from this labour was from 1752 to 1767 , while he resided at Bletchley ; but even there , from his own collection of books , and such as ...
... tion suitable to his purpose , and transcribed many MS lists , records , & c . The grand interval from this labour was from 1752 to 1767 , while he resided at Bletchley ; but even there , from his own collection of books , and such as ...
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... tion of beginners . The titles of them are as follows : 1 . " The Complete English Schoolmaster : or , the most na- tural and easy method of spelling and reading English , ac- cording to the present proper pronunciation of the language ...
... tion of beginners . The titles of them are as follows : 1 . " The Complete English Schoolmaster : or , the most na- tural and easy method of spelling and reading English , ac- cording to the present proper pronunciation of the language ...
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316 페이지 - 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.
161 페이지 - 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.
232 페이지 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
49 페이지 - 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.
50 페이지 - 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.
161 페이지 - 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.
382 페이지 - 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.
472 페이지 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and...
161 페이지 - 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.
381 페이지 - 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.