The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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Pagina 10
... poem , and in a note to Events of the Old and New Testaments , ' his ' Vision of the Maid of Orleans ' ( Poems , 1723. Chamberlayne died at his house in 1 - vol . ed . 1850 , p . 79 ) speaks of Chamber- Petty - France ( now York Street ) ...
... poem , and in a note to Events of the Old and New Testaments , ' his ' Vision of the Maid of Orleans ' ( Poems , 1723. Chamberlayne died at his house in 1 - vol . ed . 1850 , p . 79 ) speaks of Chamber- Petty - France ( now York Street ) ...
Pagina 39
... poem ' On the Attributes of God , ' but this was never finished , for she died on 11 Sept. 1745 . A seventh edition of her poems was issued in 1755 , and an eighth in 1767. She dedi- cated her book to her brother John , and her Life ...
... poem ' On the Attributes of God , ' but this was never finished , for she died on 11 Sept. 1745 . A seventh edition of her poems was issued in 1755 , and an eighth in 1767. She dedi- cated her book to her brother John , and her Life ...
Pagina 48
... poem in praise of the beauty of an imaginary mis- tress . Very different in style is " The Amorous Contention of Phillis and Flora , ' a light and graceful pastoral poem . Chapman states that the Latin original was written by a friar in ...
... poem in praise of the beauty of an imaginary mis- tress . Very different in style is " The Amorous Contention of Phillis and Flora , ' a light and graceful pastoral poem . Chapman states that the Latin original was written by a friar in ...
Pagina 49
... Poets : translated according to the Greeke in twelve Bookes of his Iliads , ' fol . , which bears no date on the title ... Poem to the Reader . At the end of the volume are fourteen sonnets to noble patrons ; and one of these sonnets is ...
... Poets : translated according to the Greeke in twelve Bookes of his Iliads , ' fol . , which bears no date on the title ... Poem to the Reader . At the end of the volume are fourteen sonnets to noble patrons ; and one of these sonnets is ...
Pagina 52
... poems already mentioned , was considerable . Among the Divers Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix ' printed at the end of Robert Chester's ' Love's Martyr , ' 1601 , is a short poem by Chapman entitled ' Peristeros , or the Male ...
... poems already mentioned , was considerable . Among the Divers Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix ' printed at the end of Robert Chester's ' Love's Martyr , ' 1601 , is a short poem by Chapman entitled ' Peristeros , or the Male ...
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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.