The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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Pagina 11
... more buliness than he himfelf could manage , and a last hired boys under him , who were known by the name of Shakespear's boys . " B 6 Some Some of the players accidentally converfe- ing with him , WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR . FI.
... more buliness than he himfelf could manage , and a last hired boys under him , who were known by the name of Shakespear's boys . " B 6 Some Some of the players accidentally converfe- ing with him , WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR . FI.
Pagina 67
... last ex- pedition , not doubting but that he should be made a facrifice to the Spaniard , he fent for Mr. Burre , who had printed his first volume of The Hiftory of the World , and asked him how it fold . Burre answered , It fold fo ...
... last ex- pedition , not doubting but that he should be made a facrifice to the Spaniard , he fent for Mr. Burre , who had printed his first volume of The Hiftory of the World , and asked him how it fold . Burre answered , It fold fo ...
Pagina 182
... last discern their error in this re- spect , and are content to make use of the helps he has left them ; which , the more they are confidered , the more they are tried , will be found more adequate to the great defign of their author ...
... last discern their error in this re- spect , and are content to make use of the helps he has left them ; which , the more they are confidered , the more they are tried , will be found more adequate to the great defign of their author ...
Pagina 14
... last particular , for I am not willing to be too long , is myfelf . I was born and baptized in the bofom of the church of Eng . land , established by law . In that profeffion I have ever fince lived , and in that I come now . to die ...
... last particular , for I am not willing to be too long , is myfelf . I was born and baptized in the bofom of the church of Eng . land , established by law . In that profeffion I have ever fince lived , and in that I come now . to die ...
Pagina 36
... last century , was defcended from a family of confiderable rank , originally feated in Shropshire ; but removing thence , it after- wards fettled in Wiltshire : and he was born at Maiden - Bradley in that county , about the year 1620 ...
... last century , was defcended from a family of confiderable rank , originally feated in Shropshire ; but removing thence , it after- wards fettled in Wiltshire : and he was born at Maiden - Bradley in that county , about the year 1620 ...
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Pagina 128 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Pagina 10 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Pagina 21 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Pagina 65 - Beg my dead body which, living, was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more — time and death call me away.
Pagina 138 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...
Pagina 20 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Pagina 65 - ... accusers; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom ! My dear wife, farewell! Bless my poor boy, pray for me, and let my good God hold you. both in his arms ! Written with the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, alas! overthrown...
Pagina 9 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Pagina 63 - I trust my blood will quench their malice that have thus cruelly murdered me, and that they will not seek also to kill thee and thine with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
Pagina 5 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.