The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift, Band 1R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1753 |
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... lady Elizabeth How- ard , and many others united their fervices in his favour . When on his death bed he was charged with having children by a mitrefs he kept , he pro- tefted that in his confcience he kept her in the no- tion of a wife ...
... lady Elizabeth How- ard , and many others united their fervices in his favour . When on his death bed he was charged with having children by a mitrefs he kept , he pro- tefted that in his confcience he kept her in the no- tion of a wife ...
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... Lady More , however , might perhaps communicate this vifion to her fon , and ' tis poffible he believed it . Another story is related by Stapleton , which is faid to have happened in the infancy of More . His nurfe one day croffing a ...
... Lady More , however , might perhaps communicate this vifion to her fon , and ' tis poffible he believed it . Another story is related by Stapleton , which is faid to have happened in the infancy of More . His nurfe one day croffing a ...
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... loft , was presented * ' Tis faid , that every day , as Sir Thomas went to the bench , after he was Chancellor , he kneeled before his father , and craved his bleffing- to to lady More , of which she was very fond 40 The LIFE Of.
... loft , was presented * ' Tis faid , that every day , as Sir Thomas went to the bench , after he was Chancellor , he kneeled before his father , and craved his bleffing- to to lady More , of which she was very fond 40 The LIFE Of.
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... lady . When he faw this , he bad his lady be contented , for it was none of hers . The Chancellor then gave the wo- man a piece of gold , and bid her be careful of her dog for the future . A friend of his had spent much time in com ...
... lady . When he faw this , he bad his lady be contented , for it was none of hers . The Chancellor then gave the wo- man a piece of gold , and bid her be careful of her dog for the future . A friend of his had spent much time in com ...
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... lady , which could enable her to take her farewel under fo many dis- advantages . Some time after his condemnation , Mr. fecretary Cromwel waited on Sir Thomas , and entreated him to accept his Majefty's pardon , upon the condition of ...
... lady , which could enable her to take her farewel under fo many dis- advantages . Some time after his condemnation , Mr. fecretary Cromwel waited on Sir Thomas , and entreated him to accept his Majefty's pardon , upon the condition of ...
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Seite 137 - 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.
Seite 94 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 243 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 312 - I know frail beauty like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords; That love a jarring is of minds...
Seite 20 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Seite 85 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Seite 292 - 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 290 - O Pallas, thou hast failed thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword. I warned thee, but in vain, for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far ; Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come.
Seite 205 - Two days after their arrival there, Mr. Donne was left alone in that room, in which Sir Robert and he and some other friends had dined together. To -this place Sir Robert returned within half an hour; and as he left, so he found, Mr. Donne alone, but in such an...
Seite 137 - ... 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.