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 7
... and fruitful mind , should not so much labour what to speak , as to find what to leave unspoken . Rich soils are often to be weeded . Secondly , you cloy your auditory . When you would be observed , speech must be either COKE ,
... and fruitful mind , should not so much labour what to speak , as to find what to leave unspoken . Rich soils are often to be weeded . Secondly , you cloy your auditory . When you would be observed , speech must be either COKE ,
עמוד 11
... ness of a man's clothes ought to put him in mind of keep- ing all clean within . " He had great quickness of parts , deep penetration , a faithful memory , and a solid judg- ment . He was wont to say , that " COKE . 11 .
... ness of a man's clothes ought to put him in mind of keep- ing all clean within . " He had great quickness of parts , deep penetration , a faithful memory , and a solid judg- ment . He was wont to say , that " COKE . 11 .
עמוד 16
... mind of Sedan , lest the remembrance of his behaviour in demanding the queen's letter should re- new his anger . But the cardinal was so far from disliking him for his faithfulness to his late master , that he received him on condition ...
... mind of Sedan , lest the remembrance of his behaviour in demanding the queen's letter should re- new his anger . But the cardinal was so far from disliking him for his faithfulness to his late master , that he received him on condition ...
עמוד 20
... mind , he resigned his rectory of Chelmsford in 1547 ; and in 1551 his warden- ship of New College ; and the year following , his rectory of Newton Longville . After queen Mary's accession to the crown , he became again a zealous Roman ...
... mind , he resigned his rectory of Chelmsford in 1547 ; and in 1551 his warden- ship of New College ; and the year following , his rectory of Newton Longville . After queen Mary's accession to the crown , he became again a zealous Roman ...
עמוד 24
... mind so strongly with the certainty of an impending revolution , that upon that account he preferred remaining in England . His expressions on this subject are remarkable , but not uncharacteristic : " I did not like the plan of ...
... mind so strongly with the certainty of an impending revolution , that upon that account he preferred remaining in England . His expressions on this subject are remarkable , but not uncharacteristic : " I did not like the plan of ...
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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.