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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עמוד 15
... . His grandfather is said to have been a wine- merchant , and his father at first followed the same occu- Dict . Hist . - D'Israeli's Curiosities , vol . I. p . $ 5 . pation ; but afterwards traded in cloth , and at COLAR DEAU . 15.
... . His grandfather is said to have been a wine- merchant , and his father at first followed the same occu- Dict . Hist . - D'Israeli's Curiosities , vol . I. p . $ 5 . pation ; but afterwards traded in cloth , and at COLAR DEAU . 15.
עמוד 22
... father had a fourth wife , relation of lord Montfort . " By her , " says his son , " he had no issue , and very little quiet . After four or five years jarring , they agreed on a sepa- ration . " She died about a year after her husband ...
... father had a fourth wife , relation of lord Montfort . " By her , " says his son , " he had no issue , and very little quiet . After four or five years jarring , they agreed on a sepa- ration . " She died about a year after her husband ...
עמוד 31
... father , Sept. 30 , 1485 , to the rectory of Thyr- ning in Huntingdonshire , but he resigned it about the lat- ter end of 1493 , probably before he set out on his travels . Ath . Ox . vot . II . Being arrived at Paris , he soon became ...
... father , Sept. 30 , 1485 , to the rectory of Thyr- ning in Huntingdonshire , but he resigned it about the lat- ter end of 1493 , probably before he set out on his travels . Ath . Ox . vot . II . Being arrived at Paris , he soon became ...
עמוד 32
... fathers , particularly Origen , Cyprian , Ambrose , and Jerome , but , it is said , very much under- valued St ... father and mother at London , retired to Oxford . Here he read public lectures on St. Paul's epistles , with- out ...
... fathers , particularly Origen , Cyprian , Ambrose , and Jerome , but , it is said , very much under- valued St ... father and mother at London , retired to Oxford . Here he read public lectures on St. Paul's epistles , with- out ...
עמוד 38
... father . This was at the very time when he was meditating the approaching massacre of the protestants . The carnage began , as is well known , the 24th of August , St. Bartholomew's day , 1572 . The duke de Guise , under a strong escort ...
... father . This was at the very time when he was meditating the approaching massacre of the protestants . The carnage began , as is well known , the 24th of August , St. Bartholomew's day , 1572 . The duke de Guise , under a strong escort ...
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עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.