A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons and Remarkable Characters in Every Age and NationT. Bensley, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, 1799 - 436 sider |
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... Queen's communicated it to the treasurer , College , Oxford , where , in 1689 , while it was yet advanced no far- the accidental perusal of some La - ther than the simile of the Angel , tin verses gained him the patro- and was rewarded ...
... Queen's communicated it to the treasurer , College , Oxford , where , in 1689 , while it was yet advanced no far- the accidental perusal of some La - ther than the simile of the Angel , tin verses gained him the patro- and was rewarded ...
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... queen was dead , and that the throne was vacant ... To do this would not have been difficult to any In the office he could not issue an order without losing his time in quest of fine expressions . What he gained in rank he lost in ...
... queen was dead , and that the throne was vacant ... To do this would not have been difficult to any In the office he could not issue an order without losing his time in quest of fine expressions . What he gained in rank he lost in ...
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... , and died in the office of physician to the queen , June 23 , 1770. " The Pleasures of Imagi nation , " his principal work , was first published in 1714 ; and a very ex- Lesbos . Horace seems to think that was the first AGR AKE.
... , and died in the office of physician to the queen , June 23 , 1770. " The Pleasures of Imagi nation , " his principal work , was first published in 1714 ; and a very ex- Lesbos . Horace seems to think that was the first AGR AKE.
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... Queens and prin- ing him , he is said to have talked so cesses , knowing him , doubtless , to absurdly about painting , that Apel- be a man of amour and gallantry , les desired him to hold his tongue , strove who should win his heart ...
... Queens and prin- ing him , he is said to have talked so cesses , knowing him , doubtless , to absurdly about painting , that Apel- be a man of amour and gallantry , les desired him to hold his tongue , strove who should win his heart ...
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... queen Anne 1709 , and admitted to have been expeted in a man of a member of the college , as he had his studious turn , as the only in- been some years of the royal so ducement that led him to it is said ciety . His gentle manners ...
... queen Anne 1709 , and admitted to have been expeted in a man of a member of the college , as he had his studious turn , as the only in- been some years of the royal so ducement that led him to it is said ciety . His gentle manners ...
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Side 20 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Side 81 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Side 53 - Dr. Donne, I have invited you to dinner ; and, though you sit not down with me, yet I will carve to you of a dish that I know you love well ; for, knowing you love London, I do therefore make you Dean of St. Paul's ; and, when I have dined, then do you take your beloved dish home to your study, say grace there to yourself, and much good may it do you.
Side 3 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Side 37 - Martin, a lieutenant-colonel, left him about two thousand pounds; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected. But man is not born for happiness. Collins, who, while he 'studied to live', felt no evil but poverty, no sooner 'lived to study' than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, disease and insanity.
Side 62 - Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety...
Side 76 - The proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world, and immoveable from its place, is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical ; because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scriptures. " 2. The proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immoveable, but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false, and, theologically considered, equally erroneous in faith.