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Pagina 16
... took orders . He completed his studies in theology and law in France and Italy , probably at Bologna , and on his return home obtained the offices of parson of Suddy , provost of Crichton , and chancellor of the diocese of Ross ...
... took orders . He completed his studies in theology and law in France and Italy , probably at Bologna , and on his return home obtained the offices of parson of Suddy , provost of Crichton , and chancellor of the diocese of Ross ...
Pagina 33
... took place under the title ' A Review of the French Revolution of 1848. ' A few years later he published ' My Travels ; an Unsentimental Journey through France , Switzerland , and Italy ' ( 3 vols . post 8vo , 1855 ) . The narrative of ...
... took place under the title ' A Review of the French Revolution of 1848. ' A few years later he published ' My Travels ; an Unsentimental Journey through France , Switzerland , and Italy ' ( 3 vols . post 8vo , 1855 ) . The narrative of ...
Pagina 59
... took place on 30 Dec. 1760 ( Gent . Mag . xxxi . 43 ) , her brother Thomas being married to Pressy , ' daughter of General Prescott , at the same time . She went first to lodgings in Carey Street , and then to a house in Arundel Street ...
... took place on 30 Dec. 1760 ( Gent . Mag . xxxi . 43 ) , her brother Thomas being married to Pressy , ' daughter of General Prescott , at the same time . She went first to lodgings in Carey Street , and then to a house in Arundel Street ...
Pagina 66
... took many cha- racters of importance , principally in comedy , and on 12 March 1734 she reappeared at Drury Lane , of which Fleetwood became manager . Among the characters in which she now appeared was Roderigo in ' Othello . ' Her ...
... took many cha- racters of importance , principally in comedy , and on 12 March 1734 she reappeared at Drury Lane , of which Fleetwood became manager . Among the characters in which she now appeared was Roderigo in ' Othello . ' Her ...
Pagina 165
... took place , for there can be little doubt that in the prologue to the ' Can- terbury Tales ' he is referring to an actual pilgrimage . If it took place in April 1388 , it was just before he sold his pensions , so that he must have ...
... took place , for there can be little doubt that in the prologue to the ' Can- terbury Tales ' he is referring to an actual pilgrimage . If it took place in April 1388 , it was just before he sold his pensions , so that he must have ...
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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.