The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 4Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Oxford University Press, 1908 |
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Pagina 106
... says that whenever one of his ministers fell , the king was always at hand with a full inventory of his faults . His quickness of apprehension was extraordinary , and was the chief source of his wit . Many of his witticisms were ...
... says that whenever one of his ministers fell , the king was always at hand with a full inventory of his faults . His quickness of apprehension was extraordinary , and was the chief source of his wit . Many of his witticisms were ...
Pagina 134
... says that in the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in pri- vate meetings in the great city . ' Samuel Parker , in his ' History of his own Time , ' p . 71 , vaguely says that he was engaged in a ...
... says that in the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in pri- vate meetings in the great city . ' Samuel Parker , in his ' History of his own Time , ' p . 71 , vaguely says that he was engaged in a ...
Pagina 138
... says Burnet , that it made the king our pope . ' Nor in spite of strong pressure from his friend Leighton , now bishop of Dunblane , would he accept a bishopric . In 1670 , however , when Leighton became archbishop of Glasgow ...
... says Burnet , that it made the king our pope . ' Nor in spite of strong pressure from his friend Leighton , now bishop of Dunblane , would he accept a bishopric . In 1670 , however , when Leighton became archbishop of Glasgow ...
Pagina 148
... says in it that nineteen - twentieths of his composition is pride . The editor of the 1842 edition of his Works ' ( i . cxvi ) says that one day he snatched a pistol from his pocket , and , holding it to his forehead , ex- claimed ...
... says in it that nineteen - twentieths of his composition is pride . The editor of the 1842 edition of his Works ' ( i . cxvi ) says that one day he snatched a pistol from his pocket , and , holding it to his forehead , ex- claimed ...
Pagina 151
... says of Chatterton , ' I do not believe there ever existed so masterly a genius . ' Joseph Warton declares that he was a prodigy of genius , and would have proved the first of English poets had he reached a mature age . ' Dr. Johnson ...
... says of Chatterton , ' I do not believe there ever existed so masterly a genius . ' Joseph Warton declares that he was a prodigy of genius , and would have proved the first of English poets had he reached a mature age . ' Dr. Johnson ...
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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.