A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century, Volumen1J. P. Lippincott, 1899 - 3140 páginas |
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... honour . Be not dismayed by the apparently unattractive character of much of the scenery through which you must pass . Persevere ; and distaste will soon yield to pleasure , and repugnance give place to enjoyment . An ever present and ...
... honour . Be not dismayed by the apparently unattractive character of much of the scenery through which you must pass . Persevere ; and distaste will soon yield to pleasure , and repugnance give place to enjoyment . An ever present and ...
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... honour to our king to have such a son made a king ; methinks I foresee in this the work of God , that by degrees the ... honour ? Were my legs as good as my heart , I should have met your lordships the better half of the way . Then my ...
... honour to our king to have such a son made a king ; methinks I foresee in this the work of God , that by degrees the ... honour ? Were my legs as good as my heart , I should have met your lordships the better half of the way . Then my ...
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... Honour of her Prince , as it was performed upon St. George's Day , 1610 , in the foresaid citie , Lon . , 1610 , 4to . Sold in Dent's sale for £ 7.10 . Rhodes , £ 8.12 . Ames . The Double Descent , a Poem , Lon . , 1692 . Ames , Edwd ...
... Honour of her Prince , as it was performed upon St. George's Day , 1610 , in the foresaid citie , Lon . , 1610 , 4to . Sold in Dent's sale for £ 7.10 . Rhodes , £ 8.12 . Ames . The Double Descent , a Poem , Lon . , 1692 . Ames , Edwd ...
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... honour by Thuanus and others , ... He wrote several Letters to his cousin , Dr. John Dee , concern- ing the sovereignty of the seas , some of which I have seen . " - WOOD . He also wrote something respecting the reformation of the Court ...
... honour by Thuanus and others , ... He wrote several Letters to his cousin , Dr. John Dee , concern- ing the sovereignty of the seas , some of which I have seen . " - WOOD . He also wrote something respecting the reformation of the Court ...
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... honours . Ben Jonson represents him as marked for this distinction , even before the sagacity of the Queen had ... honour of knighthood . In 1604 he was appointed King's Counsel ; shortly after which he married Alice , the daughter ...
... honours . Ben Jonson represents him as marked for this distinction , even before the sagacity of the Queen had ... honour of knighthood . In 1604 he was appointed King's Counsel ; shortly after which he married Alice , the daughter ...
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Página 176 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great Inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds In her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes Its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last" In 1728 he married Anne, the eldest daughter...
Página 38 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Página 245 - Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
Página 72 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Página 89 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 226 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Página 15 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 245 - ON THE POWER WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD AS MANIFESTED IN THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL, NATURE TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
Página 14 - LIBRARY. What a world of wit is here packed up together ! I know not whether this sight doth more dismay or comfort me ; it dismays me to think that here is so much that I cannot know ; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should. There is no truer word than that of Solomon — there is no end of making many books...
Página 96 - ... innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.