The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 |
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... became allied to some of the noblest houses in the kingdom , preferments flowed in upon him apace . The cities of Coventry and Norwich chose him their recorder ; the county of Norfolk , one of their knights in parliament ; and the house ...
... became allied to some of the noblest houses in the kingdom , preferments flowed in upon him apace . The cities of Coventry and Norwich chose him their recorder ; the county of Norfolk , one of their knights in parliament ; and the house ...
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... became at length an affair of state . The differences were at length made up , in appearance at least , Sept. 1617 ; sir Edward was re- stored to favour , and reinstated in his place as privy - coun- cillor ; and sir John Villiers was ...
... became at length an affair of state . The differences were at length made up , in appearance at least , Sept. 1617 ; sir Edward was re- stored to favour , and reinstated in his place as privy - coun- cillor ; and sir John Villiers was ...
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... became for a time the idol of the party in opposition to the court , and his conduct at this time is still mentioned with veneration by their historians and ad- vocates . Our own opinion is , that although lord Coke was occasionally ...
... became for a time the idol of the party in opposition to the court , and his conduct at this time is still mentioned with veneration by their historians and ad- vocates . Our own opinion is , that although lord Coke was occasionally ...
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... became the queen's solicitor , speaker of the house of commons , at- torney - general , chief justice of both benches , high - stew- ard of Cambridge , and a member of the privy - council , without either begging or bribing . As he ...
... became the queen's solicitor , speaker of the house of commons , at- torney - general , chief justice of both benches , high - stew- ard of Cambridge , and a member of the privy - council , without either begging or bribing . As he ...
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... became clerk to a notary . In 1648 his relation John Baptist Colbert , lord of S. Pouange , preferred him to the service of Michael le Tellier , secretary of state , whose sister he had married ; and here he discovered such dili- gence ...
... became clerk to a notary . In 1648 his relation John Baptist Colbert , lord of S. Pouange , preferred him to the service of Michael le Tellier , secretary of state , whose sister he had married ; and here he discovered such dili- gence ...
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Side 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Side 161 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Side 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Side 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and 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.
Side 50 - It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Side 161 - And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Side 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Side 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and...
Side 161 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
Side 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.