Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, Volume 1author, 1812 |
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... manner in which this Work has been executed , it is necessary to observe , that the volume has been more than four years in the press ; and during that period many new and unexpected informations have swelled it to the sent size , and ...
... manner in which this Work has been executed , it is necessary to observe , that the volume has been more than four years in the press ; and during that period many new and unexpected informations have swelled it to the sent size , and ...
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... other Bishops had in like manner practised , the dignities of cathedrals would have been kept up as in the primitive times , and we should not Lord Bishop of London in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth 10 [ 1701 . LITERARY ANECDOTES OF.
... other Bishops had in like manner practised , the dignities of cathedrals would have been kept up as in the primitive times , and we should not Lord Bishop of London in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth 10 [ 1701 . LITERARY ANECDOTES OF.
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... manner of writing , which is pure and elegant ) she discovers an uncommon degree of piety and knowledge , and a noble contempt of those vanities which the generality of both sexes so much regard , and so eagerly pursue . * Robert ...
... manner of writing , which is pure and elegant ) she discovers an uncommon degree of piety and knowledge , and a noble contempt of those vanities which the generality of both sexes so much regard , and so eagerly pursue . * Robert ...
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... manner particularly honourable to him . He was promoted to a prebend of Worcester in March 1679-80 ; made chaplain to the King in 1681 ; and dean of Worcester in August 1683. At the Revolu- tion , refusing with many others to take the ...
... manner particularly honourable to him . He was promoted to a prebend of Worcester in March 1679-80 ; made chaplain to the King in 1681 ; and dean of Worcester in August 1683. At the Revolu- tion , refusing with many others to take the ...
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... manner of incumbrances ) for the working and carrying on the said mineral works , to the great advantage of the king and kingdom . Proposed by Sir Humphry Mackworth , perused and settled by eminent and learned council in the law , and ...
... manner of incumbrances ) for the working and carrying on the said mineral works , to the great advantage of the king and kingdom . Proposed by Sir Humphry Mackworth , perused and settled by eminent and learned council in the law , and ...
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Pagina 54 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines ; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat ; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation.
Pagina 358 - Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
Pagina 399 - Nov. 2, 1713, Dr. Swift came into the coffeehouse, and had a bow from every body but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him.
Pagina 342 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Pagina 78 - It is unpleasant to relate that the bookseller, after all his hopes and all his liberality, was, by a very unjust and illegal action, defrauded of his profit '. An edition of the English Iliad...
Pagina 286 - His character is finely drawn by the Marquis of Halifax : one paragraph of which is too remarkable to be omitted : " His indifference for preferment ; his contempt not only of splendour, but of all unnecessary plenty; his degrading himself...
Pagina 53 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Pagina 111 - My lord would carry on the jest, And down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there ; In summer round the park to ride, In winter — never to reside. A canon ! that's a place too mean : No, doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round your stall, And you the tyrant o'er them all : You need but cross the Irish seas, To live in plenty, power, and ease.
Pagina 42 - He's an animal of a most deplored understanding, without reading and conversation. His being is in a twilight of sense, and some glimmering of thought, which he can never fashion into wit or English. His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding.
Pagina 400 - if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which, he said, he must have them all subscribe. 'For,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.