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 35
... months after captain Raleigh's return , he was chofen knight of the fhire for his own county of Devon , and the fame fef- fion received the honour of knighthood , a diftinction the more honourable to him , as C 6 the the queen was ...
... months after captain Raleigh's return , he was chofen knight of the fhire for his own county of Devon , and the fame fef- fion received the honour of knighthood , a diftinction the more honourable to him , as C 6 the the queen was ...
Pagina 41
... months , and difmiffed the lady from her attendance ; to whom he afterwards . made the most honourable reparation he could by marriage ; in which they were both exam- ples of conjugal affection and fidelity . While Sir Walter Raleigh ...
... months , and difmiffed the lady from her attendance ; to whom he afterwards . made the most honourable reparation he could by marriage ; in which they were both exam- ples of conjugal affection and fidelity . While Sir Walter Raleigh ...
Pagina 63
... months ; my honeft coufin Brett can teftify fo much , and Dolberry too can remem- ber fomewhat therein : and , I trust my blood will quench their malice that have cruelly murdered me ; and , that they will not feek alfo to kill thee and ...
... months ; my honeft coufin Brett can teftify fo much , and Dolberry too can remem- ber fomewhat therein : and , I trust my blood will quench their malice that have cruelly murdered me ; and , that they will not feek alfo to kill thee and ...
Pagina 70
... month after the death of his father . Being born in Westminster , he was put to a private school in the church of St. Martin's in the fields ; but removed thence , at a proper age , to that of the royal foundation , where Camden became ...
... month after the death of his father . Being born in Westminster , he was put to a private school in the church of St. Martin's in the fields ; but removed thence , at a proper age , to that of the royal foundation , where Camden became ...
Pagina 75
... months with this ingenious friend , to whom he opened his heart with a moft unreserved freedom and confidence , the fweeteft gift of friendship . Our author was much pleased with the adventures of this jour- ney , and celebrated them in ...
... months with this ingenious friend , to whom he opened his heart with a moft unreserved freedom and confidence , the fweeteft gift of friendship . Our author was much pleased with the adventures of this jour- ney , and celebrated them in ...
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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.