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, Volumen1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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Página 79
... ( says he ) there are none of our prefent writers , who have hit the fublime in nonsense , be- fides Dr. Sacheverel , " ( who had juít published his fermon ) . This public raillery upon Dr. Sacheverel is a con- vincing proof , that all ...
... ( says he ) there are none of our prefent writers , who have hit the fublime in nonsense , be- fides Dr. Sacheverel , " ( who had juít published his fermon ) . This public raillery upon Dr. Sacheverel is a con- vincing proof , that all ...
Página 87
... say the stage in this place , I am understood to mean in general , the present taste of thea- trical representations ; where nothing that is not violent , and , as I may fay , grofly delightful , can come on without hazard of being ...
... say the stage in this place , I am understood to mean in general , the present taste of thea- trical representations ; where nothing that is not violent , and , as I may fay , grofly delightful , can come on without hazard of being ...
Página 97
... says ( p . 79. ) that cardinal Petrucci was the chief of the confpirators , and Adrian one of thofe to whom he imparted his defign . According to Polydore Virgil , the pope had taken under his protection the inhabitants of Sienna , and ...
... says ( p . 79. ) that cardinal Petrucci was the chief of the confpirators , and Adrian one of thofe to whom he imparted his defign . According to Polydore Virgil , the pope had taken under his protection the inhabitants of Sienna , and ...
Página 129
... say , that the faufage - maker's fon was the only perfon who knew how to pay a due regard to him . It is faid that poverty obliged him to go to Sicily , to Diony- fius the Tyrant , and that he met with great contempt from Plato . We are ...
... say , that the faufage - maker's fon was the only perfon who knew how to pay a due regard to him . It is faid that poverty obliged him to go to Sicily , to Diony- fius the Tyrant , and that he met with great contempt from Plato . We are ...
Página 148
... ( says Cornelius Nepos ) was favourable to Agefilaus in endowing him with the virtues of the mind , fo was the unkind in forming his body , for he was of a short ftature , and being lame of one foot , this added to the deformity of his ...
... ( says Cornelius Nepos ) was favourable to Agefilaus in endowing him with the virtues of the mind , fo was the unkind in forming his body , for he was of a short ftature , and being lame of one foot , this added to the deformity of his ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 469 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Página 87 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 87 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 83 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Página 22 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Página 42 - The object, I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight trees, which on the waters flew; Wings on their sides, instead of leaves, did grow, Which gathered all the breath the winds could blow : And at their roots grew floating palaces, Whose outblowed bellies cut the yielding seas.
Página 294 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. VERSES...
Página 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
Página 80 - Britannia's public pofts retire, Nor longer, her ungrateful fons to pleafe, For their advantage facrifice your eafe ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys, Through nations fruitful of immortal lays, Where the foft feafon and inviting clime Confpire to trouble your repofe with rhime.
Página 248 - I now write to give the King an account of a patent I have stayed at the seal. It is of licence to give in mortmain eight hundred pound land, though it be of tenure in chief, to Allen that was the player, for an hospital.