The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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... alfo who have a tafte for drollery and true humour . His ge- nius was almoft boundless ; and he fucceeded alike in every part of writing . I cannot forbear giving the character of Shakespear in the words of a great genius , in a ...
... alfo who have a tafte for drollery and true humour . His ge- nius was almoft boundless ; and he fucceeded alike in every part of writing . I cannot forbear giving the character of Shakespear in the words of a great genius , in a ...
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... alfo to have been con- verfant with Plautus , from whence he has taken the plot of one of his playss . He fol- lows the Greek authors , and particularly Da- res Phrygius in another ; although I will not pretend , " continues Mr. Pope ...
... alfo to have been con- verfant with Plautus , from whence he has taken the plot of one of his playss . He fol- lows the Greek authors , and particularly Da- res Phrygius in another ; although I will not pretend , " continues Mr. Pope ...
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... alfo discovered the preparations made by the Spaniards to receive Raleigh . To the juft indignation which he conceived upon this occafion , was added the mortifica- tion of finding that Keymis had made no trial of the mine . He ...
... alfo discovered the preparations made by the Spaniards to receive Raleigh . To the juft indignation which he conceived upon this occafion , was added the mortifica- tion of finding that Keymis had made no trial of the mine . He ...
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... alfo to kill thee and thine with extreme po- verty . To what friend to direct thee I know not , for all mine have left me in the true time of trial ; and I perceive that my death was deter- mined from the first day . Moft forry I am ...
... alfo to kill thee and thine with extreme po- verty . To what friend to direct thee I know not , for all mine have left me in the true time of trial ; and I perceive that my death was deter- mined from the first day . Moft forry I am ...
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... alfo have much owing me befides . The arrearages of the wines will pay your debts : and , how- foever you do , for my foul's fake , pay all poor men . When I am gone , no doubt but you fhall be fought to , for the world thinks that I ...
... alfo have much owing me befides . The arrearages of the wines will pay your debts : and , how- foever you do , for my foul's fake , pay all poor men . When I am gone , no doubt but you fhall be fought to , for the world thinks that I ...
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Página 128 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 10 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Página 21 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Página 65 - Beg my dead body which, living, was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more — time and death call me away.
Página 138 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...
Página 20 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 65 - ... accusers; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom ! My dear wife, farewell! Bless my poor boy, pray for me, and let my good God hold you. both in his arms ! Written with the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, alas! overthrown...
Página 9 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Página 63 - I trust my blood will quench their malice that have thus cruelly murdered me, and that they will not seek also to kill thee and thine with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
Página 5 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.