A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volumen3T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... March , 1688 , he went over to the univerfity of Utrecht , where he ftudied philofophy under De Vries , and civil law under Van- der Muyden , and attended Grævius's lectures upon Sopho- cles and Puffendorf's Introduction . His ...
... March , 1688 , he went over to the univerfity of Utrecht , where he ftudied philofophy under De Vries , and civil law under Van- der Muyden , and attended Grævius's lectures upon Sopho- cles and Puffendorf's Introduction . His ...
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... March 1636 , when he was only forty three years of age . He was buried in the cloifter of the Cor- deliers at Nancy , where his ancestors lay ; and had an epi- 3 taph taph infcribed upon a piece of black marble , on CALLO T. 31 ...
... March 1636 , when he was only forty three years of age . He was buried in the cloifter of the Cor- deliers at Nancy , where his ancestors lay ; and had an epi- 3 taph taph infcribed upon a piece of black marble , on CALLO T. 31 ...
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... March 5 , 1621-2 , he made over all his right in the manor of Bexley in Kent , with all profits , & c . arifing therefrom , to the chancellor , mafters , and fcholars , of the university of Oxford , and their fucceffors , with this ...
... March 5 , 1621-2 , he made over all his right in the manor of Bexley in Kent , with all profits , & c . arifing therefrom , to the chancellor , mafters , and fcholars , of the university of Oxford , and their fucceffors , with this ...
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... March 1639 , in the feventy - first year of his age . A lift of his writings may be seen in Moreri . CAMPIAN ( EDMUND ) a very ingenious and learned Englishman , was born at London upon the twenty fifth of January 1540 , and educated ...
... March 1639 , in the feventy - first year of his age . A lift of his writings may be seen in Moreri . CAMPIAN ( EDMUND ) a very ingenious and learned Englishman , was born at London upon the twenty fifth of January 1540 , and educated ...
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... - ment of Rennes , by Jane Brochard , daughter of the lieu- tenant - general of Poitiers . He was born at La Haye , in hid F 4 Touraine , Bayle . Ibid . Touraine , March 31 , 1596. CARTE S. 71 to his house, as if he had been his ...
... - ment of Rennes , by Jane Brochard , daughter of the lieu- tenant - general of Poitiers . He was born at La Haye , in hid F 4 Touraine , Bayle . Ibid . Touraine , March 31 , 1596. CARTE S. 71 to his house, as if he had been his ...
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Página 490 - ... to lie Spenser's works; this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights and giants and monsters and brave houses which I found everywhere there...
Página 447 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Página 81 - O Pallas ! thou hast fail'd thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword : I warn'd thee, but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far, Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war ! O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come...
Página 174 - Porta could not have described their natures better than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Página 174 - We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared.
Página 500 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Página 412 - I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Página 175 - Chaucer's side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled ; so that what there was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal.
Página 373 - 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. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Página 490 - 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.