The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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Pagina 22
... never lost , of two other pupils , John Scott , the well - known lord Eldon , and his brother , William Scott , afterwards lord Stowell . In July 1754 he was elected an exhibitioner of Lincoln College , Oxford , and proceeded B.A. 3 Feb ...
... never lost , of two other pupils , John Scott , the well - known lord Eldon , and his brother , William Scott , afterwards lord Stowell . In July 1754 he was elected an exhibitioner of Lincoln College , Oxford , and proceeded B.A. 3 Feb ...
Pagina 44
... never been forward in politics or sat in parliament ; in 1852 he issued an address at Beverley , but withdrew on finding how corrupt the borough was . He remained on the bench till January 1873 , when , being afflicted with asthma and ...
... never been forward in politics or sat in parliament ; in 1852 he issued an address at Beverley , but withdrew on finding how corrupt the borough was . He remained on the bench till January 1873 , when , being afflicted with asthma and ...
Pagina 50
... never been without admirers . Dry- den , in the dedication to the third volume of his Miscellanies , ' writes : - " The Earl of Mul- grave and Mr. Waller , two of the best judges of our age , have assured me they could never read over ...
... never been without admirers . Dry- den , in the dedication to the third volume of his Miscellanies , ' writes : - " The Earl of Mul- grave and Mr. Waller , two of the best judges of our age , have assured me they could never read over ...
Pagina 68
... never for expediency's sake pursue that which he be- lieved to be a wrong one ; but there was in him no mental growth , no geniality of tem- perament , leading him to modify his own opinions through intercourse with his fellow- men ...
... never for expediency's sake pursue that which he be- lieved to be a wrong one ; but there was in him no mental growth , no geniality of tem- perament , leading him to modify his own opinions through intercourse with his fellow- men ...
Pagina 74
... never intended by ' the house ' to ask , never meant , I am sure , by me to grant . ' On 26 June he prorogued parliament . The assassination of Buckingham and the failure of the new ex- pedition to Ré quickly followed . Charles never ...
... never intended by ' the house ' to ask , never meant , I am sure , by me to grant . ' On 26 June he prorogued parliament . The assassination of Buckingham and the failure of the new ex- pedition to Ré quickly followed . Charles never ...
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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.