Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits, with memoirs by A.T. Malkin]. |
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... attack the diminished enemy , and Wallen- stein , though with inferior troops , was not slow to meet him . The King of Sweden's last victory was gained November 6 , 1632 , in the plain of Lutzen . Suffering from a recent wound , he did ...
... attack the diminished enemy , and Wallen- stein , though with inferior troops , was not slow to meet him . The King of Sweden's last victory was gained November 6 , 1632 , in the plain of Lutzen . Suffering from a recent wound , he did ...
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... attacked him with brutal fury , on account of his Magnetic Lady . " Gill was a bad man as well as a bad poet ; and Jonson availed himself of his adver- sary's weak points in a short but cutting reply . His last masque was performed July ...
... attacked him with brutal fury , on account of his Magnetic Lady . " Gill was a bad man as well as a bad poet ; and Jonson availed himself of his adver- sary's weak points in a short but cutting reply . His last masque was performed July ...
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... attacked by gout with more than usual severity . This painful disease was succeeded by a general debility , which obliged him to desist from the execution of large works , to relinquish all public business , and even to limit his ...
... attacked by gout with more than usual severity . This painful disease was succeeded by a general debility , which obliged him to desist from the execution of large works , to relinquish all public business , and even to limit his ...
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... attack the Spaniards in their dominions in the Low Coun- tries , laid siege to Arras : but through the bad conduct of those who administered the finances of the state , he not only found himself unprovided with all that was necessary to ...
... attack the Spaniards in their dominions in the Low Coun- tries , laid siege to Arras : but through the bad conduct of those who administered the finances of the state , he not only found himself unprovided with all that was necessary to ...
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... attack or defence of fortified places . As Master of the Ord- nance he mainly contributed to the success of the war with the Duke of Savoy . The army was well paid and provided , the artillery always at its place at the proper time ...
... attack or defence of fortified places . As Master of the Ord- nance he mainly contributed to the success of the war with the Duke of Savoy . The army was well paid and provided , the artillery always at its place at the proper time ...
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Página 60 - 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 128 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Página 191 - ' 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 126 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Página 56 - 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 287 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Página 55 - 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 449 - 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 34 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Página 64 - Till then, our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their Tragedies were only Histories in dialogue ; and their Comedies followed the thread of any novel as they found it, no less implicitly than if it had been true history.