The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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Pagina 27
... According to Warton , the ' Heroic Epistle ' was ' cut out by Walpole , but buckramed by Mason . ' At this time Chambers was architect to the king and queen , and comptroller of his majesty's works ( an office afterwards changed to that ...
... According to Warton , the ' Heroic Epistle ' was ' cut out by Walpole , but buckramed by Mason . ' At this time Chambers was architect to the king and queen , and comptroller of his majesty's works ( an office afterwards changed to that ...
Pagina 65
... According to it Charlotte Cibber was born when her mother was forty - five years of age , and came ' not only as an unexpected but an unwelcome guest into the family . ' Her education at ' a famous school in Park Street , Westminster ...
... According to it Charlotte Cibber was born when her mother was forty - five years of age , and came ' not only as an unexpected but an unwelcome guest into the family . ' Her education at ' a famous school in Park Street , Westminster ...
Pagina 66
... according to the ' Biographia Dra- matica ' and the Gentleman's Magazine , ' 6 April 1760 , but according to a supplement to the reprint of her biography in 1759. In addition to ' The Art of Management , ' which was not acted , she ...
... according to the ' Biographia Dra- matica ' and the Gentleman's Magazine , ' 6 April 1760 , but according to a supplement to the reprint of her biography in 1759. In addition to ' The Art of Management , ' which was not acted , she ...
Pagina 74
... according to the laws and estates of the realm , ' but he would not bind himself absolutely by a new law . The result was that Wentworth withdrew from the position which he had taken up , and that , the bill proposed by him having been ...
... according to the laws and estates of the realm , ' but he would not bind himself absolutely by a new law . The result was that Wentworth withdrew from the position which he had taken up , and that , the bill proposed by him having been ...
Pagina 86
... According to Clarendon ( v . 360 ) , the islands were on 12 April surrounded by a fleet of twenty - seven or twenty - eight sail , which was , however , dispersed by a two days ' storm . The opportunity was not to be lost ; and the ...
... According to Clarendon ( v . 360 ) , the islands were on 12 April surrounded by a fleet of twenty - seven or twenty - eight sail , which was , however , dispersed by a two days ' storm . The opportunity was not to be lost ; and the ...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4 Leslie Stephen,Sir Sidney Lee Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1950 |
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Pagina 357 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Pagina 74 - ... good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Pagina 47 - The whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poets, in his Iliads and Odysses, translated according to the Greeke, by George Chapman.
Pagina 417 - The Shakespeare Key: unlocking the treasures of his style, elucidating the peculiarities of his construction, and displaying the beauties of his expression; forming a companion to " The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare.
Pagina 142 - Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world.
Pagina 81 - that the capital and grand author of our troubles, the person of the king, by whose commissions, commands, or procurement, and in whose behalf and for whose interest only, of will and power, all our wars and troubles have been, with all the miseries attending them, may be speedily brought to justice for the treason, blood, and mischief he is therein guilty of.
Pagina 340 - Divi Britannici : being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the World 2855, unto the year of Grace 1660.
Pagina 421 - The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum.
Pagina 48 - I am here, my most honoured Lord, unexamined and unheard, committed to a vile prison, and with me a gentleman, (whose name, may, perhaps, have come to your Lordship) one Mr. George Chapman, a learned and honest man.
Pagina 145 - I take this method to acquaint you that I can procure copies of several ancient poems, and an interlude, perhaps the oldest dramatic piece extant, wrote by one Rowley, a priest of Bristol, who lived in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV.