The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Band 3J. Mawman, 1816 |
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... owe . Τις ξυσησεται ; ( JONSON . ) ( Æsch . Επι , επι Θηβ . 431. ) LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN , LUDGATE STREET ; AND FOR BALDWIN , CRADOCK , AND JOY , PATERNOSTER ROW . C. Baldwin , Printer , New Bridge - street , 1816 .
... owe . Τις ξυσησεται ; ( JONSON . ) ( Æsch . Επι , επι Θηβ . 431. ) LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN , LUDGATE STREET ; AND FOR BALDWIN , CRADOCK , AND JOY , PATERNOSTER ROW . C. Baldwin , Printer , New Bridge - street , 1816 .
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... Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time Francis Wrangham. C. Baldwin , Printer , New Bridge - street , London . Lowe 12-7-45 53497 CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUM E. Born.
... Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time Francis Wrangham. C. Baldwin , Printer , New Bridge - street , London . Lowe 12-7-45 53497 CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUM E. Born.
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... London , April 13 , 1593 ; and received his academical education at St. John's College , Cam- bridge , where by his great application he made con- siderable progress in learning . On quitting the Uni- versity , to which however he ...
... London , April 13 , 1593 ; and received his academical education at St. John's College , Cam- bridge , where by his great application he made con- siderable progress in learning . On quitting the Uni- versity , to which however he ...
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... London on this account , and neglected not to attend the courts every term in which it came to be heard . 6 In 1615 , he was reluctantly nominated by the tur- bulent Sir John Savile to succeed him , as Custos Ro- tulorum for the West ...
... London on this account , and neglected not to attend the courts every term in which it came to be heard . 6 In 1615 , he was reluctantly nominated by the tur- bulent Sir John Savile to succeed him , as Custos Ro- tulorum for the West ...
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... London , he had lost his wife , and suffered much in his own con- stitution . A tertian ague , which succeeded the fever , and which frequently recurred during the interval between the two parliaments , had obliged him to seek for ...
... London , he had lost his wife , and suffered much in his own con- stitution . A tertian ague , which succeeded the fever , and which frequently recurred during the interval between the two parliaments , had obliged him to seek for ...
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afterward ancient ANTISTROPHE appeared appointed Archbishop army attend authority bill of attainder Bishop called cause Chancellor charge Charles Charles II Church Church of England Clarendon College Colonel command Commons Council court Cromwell daughter death declared desired discourse divine Earl Earl of Strafford endeavoured enemy England English father favour fear friends Hampden hand hath heart high-treason honour House House of Lords Ireland Irish John judgement King King's kingdom Laud learning letter liberty likewise lived London Long Parliament Majesty ment Milton ministers Monk nation never observed occasion Oliver Cromwell Owthorpe Oxford parlia party person petition Petition of Right Prince principles Privy procured Protector published reason received religion resolved respect Restoration Richard Cromwell royal says Scotland Scots Selden sent Sir Harry Vane Sovereign spirit Strafford thing thought tion Usher Wentworth whole William Laud Williams
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Seite 486 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 75 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was 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.
Seite 490 - And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise; but that none hath by more studious ways endeavoured, and with more unwearied spirit that none shall, that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend; and that the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...
Seite 436 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Seite 249 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hathand. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untuneable ; and Ms eloquence full of fervour, for the subject matter...
Seite 257 - 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?
Seite 487 - ... form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed; which in them that know art, and use...
Seite 478 - 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.
Seite 494 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Seite 486 - Vanity, but to be an Interpreter and Relater of the best and sagest things, among mine own Citizens throughout this Island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest Wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine...