The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ...C. Knight, 1834 |
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... have been the motive , his means of success were imposing . He was to march into Germany at the head of forty thousand excellent troops . The army , provisions , and every other necessary were in 46 HENRY IV . OF FRANCE .
... have been the motive , his means of success were imposing . He was to march into Germany at the head of forty thousand excellent troops . The army , provisions , and every other necessary were in 46 HENRY IV . OF FRANCE .
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... March 23 , 1729 , Hogarth contracted a stolen marriage with the only daughter of the once fashionable painter , Sir James Thornhill . The father , for some time implacable , relented at last ; and the recon- ciliation , it is said , was ...
... March 23 , 1729 , Hogarth contracted a stolen marriage with the only daughter of the once fashionable painter , Sir James Thornhill . The father , for some time implacable , relented at last ; and the recon- ciliation , it is said , was ...
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... March to Finchley , Southwark Fair , the Distressed Poet , the Enraged Musician , Modern Midnight Conversation , Gin Lane and Beer Street , the four prints of an Election , and two entitled " The Times , " which would hardly require ...
... March to Finchley , Southwark Fair , the Distressed Poet , the Enraged Musician , Modern Midnight Conversation , Gin Lane and Beer Street , the four prints of an Election , and two entitled " The Times , " which would hardly require ...
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... March , 1556 , he was taken from his prison to St. Mary's Church , and exhi- bited to a crowded audience , on an elevated platform , in front of the pulpit . After a sermon from Dr. Cole , the Provost of Eton , he uttered a short and ...
... March , 1556 , he was taken from his prison to St. Mary's Church , and exhi- bited to a crowded audience , on an elevated platform , in front of the pulpit . After a sermon from Dr. Cole , the Provost of Eton , he uttered a short and ...
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... examines always with jealousy , sometimes with malig- nity , the motives and conduct of Reformers , from his first notice of Wiclif to the close of his history . TASSO . TORQUATO TASSO , born at Sorrento March 11 148 CRANMER .
... examines always with jealousy , sometimes with malig- nity , the motives and conduct of Reformers , from his first notice of Wiclif to the close of his history . TASSO . TORQUATO TASSO , born at Sorrento March 11 148 CRANMER .
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Página 197 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Página 161 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Página 13 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Página 62 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.
Página 196 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before ! So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she, Adorned with Beauty's grace and Virtue's store...
Página 177 - Chaucer) were of the Inner Temple ; for not many years since Master Buckley did see a record in the same house where Geoffry Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street.
Página 158 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Página 42 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Página 157 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Página 187 - ... ever come, when you shall wish to enjoy the tranquillity of private life, may you have a son endowed with such qualities, that you can resign your sceptre to him, with as much satisfaction as I give up mine to you.