The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 31Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1817 |
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... concerning the duty of a poet is contained in his declaration , that " he would blot from his works any line , that did not contain some motive to virtue . " For his merit as a poet , we may refer with confidence to Johnson , whose life ...
... concerning the duty of a poet is contained in his declaration , that " he would blot from his works any line , that did not contain some motive to virtue . " For his merit as a poet , we may refer with confidence to Johnson , whose life ...
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... concerning the quadrature of the circle . He accordingly spent a very considerable time in studying it , but found some insuperable difficulties , which , with what he had accomplished , he communicated to Mr. Seth Ward , then Savilian ...
... concerning the quadrature of the circle . He accordingly spent a very considerable time in studying it , but found some insuperable difficulties , which , with what he had accomplished , he communicated to Mr. Seth Ward , then Savilian ...
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... concerning this cure was inserted in the " Philosophical Transactions of July 1670. This was represented , as if he had vainly assumed to himself the glory of teaching this young gen- tleman to speak , without taking any notice of what ...
... concerning this cure was inserted in the " Philosophical Transactions of July 1670. This was represented , as if he had vainly assumed to himself the glory of teaching this young gen- tleman to speak , without taking any notice of what ...
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... concerning the Trinity and Creed of Athanasius . This induced the doctor to write a sixth letter , dated March the 14th , 1690-1 . W. J. wrote the doctor a second letter , which was answered by the doc- tor in a seventh letter , who ...
... concerning the Trinity and Creed of Athanasius . This induced the doctor to write a sixth letter , dated March the 14th , 1690-1 . W. J. wrote the doctor a second letter , which was answered by the doc- tor in a seventh letter , who ...
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... concerning Women , being a Defence of the Sex , " in 8vo ; and , the year after , " Letters and Poems , amorous and gallant , " published in what is called " Dryden's Miscel- lany . " These were republished among the " Works of the ...
... concerning Women , being a Defence of the Sex , " in 8vo ; and , the year after , " Letters and Poems , amorous and gallant , " published in what is called " Dryden's Miscel- lany . " These were republished among the " Works of the ...
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Page 69 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
Page 402 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Page 251 - Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to sooth his mind, and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
Page 119 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 89 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 297 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 440 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
Page 165 - Master William Warner, a man of good yeares and of honest reputation ; by his profession an atturnye of the Common Pleas ; author of...
Page 436 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Page 336 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet...