Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Boywer, 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 Indexauthor, 1812 |
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... Doctor has hitherto , maugre many solicitations I have repeatedly made to him , sometimes in person , at other times by or through members of all three ( i . e . the Royal and Antiquarian , and this their humble , but , I thank ...
... Doctor has hitherto , maugre many solicitations I have repeatedly made to him , sometimes in person , at other times by or through members of all three ( i . e . the Royal and Antiquarian , and this their humble , but , I thank ...
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... Doctor runs thus : About two years after [ viz . in the year 1681 ] , that great light of learning Richard Bentley [ now D.D. Regius professor of Divinity , master of Trinity College , Royal librarian , & c . ] supplied his place ; who ...
... Doctor runs thus : About two years after [ viz . in the year 1681 ] , that great light of learning Richard Bentley [ now D.D. Regius professor of Divinity , master of Trinity College , Royal librarian , & c . ] supplied his place ; who ...
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... Doctor of Music , Member of the Society , and Organist of Leices- ter , performed by himself and Gentlemen of the concert there . OVERTURE . Chorus for three voices . I. Sung by the Doctor , and repeated at the end . The fairest glory ...
... Doctor of Music , Member of the Society , and Organist of Leices- ter , performed by himself and Gentlemen of the concert there . OVERTURE . Chorus for three voices . I. Sung by the Doctor , and repeated at the end . The fairest glory ...
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... Doctors Jurin , Taylor , Bentley , Knight , Stukeley , Birch , Bishops Pearce , Pococke , Lyttel- ton , Mr. Pope , Mr. Gay , Roger and Samuel Gale , Mr. Clarke , Martin Folkes , Professor Ward , Browne Willis , Mr. Anstis , Mr. Drake ...
... Doctors Jurin , Taylor , Bentley , Knight , Stukeley , Birch , Bishops Pearce , Pococke , Lyttel- ton , Mr. Pope , Mr. Gay , Roger and Samuel Gale , Mr. Clarke , Martin Folkes , Professor Ward , Browne Willis , Mr. Anstis , Mr. Drake ...
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... Doctor himself took up ; and , if he did not antici- pate his friend , may be fairly said to have exhausted the subject , in his two copious quartos , published 1757 and 1759. It appears that Mr. Johnson en- * The beautiful West front ...
... Doctor himself took up ; and , if he did not antici- pate his friend , may be fairly said to have exhausted the subject , in his two copious quartos , published 1757 and 1759. It appears that Mr. Johnson en- * The beautiful West front ...
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Page 446 - you shall be my confessor ; when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Page 446 - On Sunday evening the symptoms of his lordship's disorder, which for a week past had alarmed us, put on a fatal appearance, and his lordship believed himself to be a dying man.
Page 158 - A Companion to the Guide, and a Guide to the Companion; being a complete Supplement to all the Accounts of Oxford hitherto published.
Page 441 - I have read your religious treatise with infinite pleasure and satisfaction. The style is fine and clear, the arguments close, cogent, and irresistible. May the King of kings, whose glorious cause you have so wel,!
Page 441 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.
Page 486 - Mr Murray, afterwards Earl of Mansfield and lord chief justice of England, was so extraordinary a person, and made so great a figure in the world, that his name must go down to posterity, with distinguished honour, in the public records of the nation.
Page 446 - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed as from a copious spring.
Page 403 - How, said I, would Pope have raved, had he been served so? "We should never (replied he) have heard the last on't, to be sure; but then Pope was a narrow man: I will however (added he) storm and bluster myself a little this time;" — so went to London in all the wrath he could muster up. At his return I asked how the affair ended: "Why...
Page 442 - ... irresistible. May the King of Kings, whose glorious cause you have so well defended, reward your pious labours, and grant that I may be found worthy, through the merits of Jesus Christ, to be an eye-witness of that happiness which I don't doubt he will bountifully bestow upon you. In the mean time, I shall never cease glorifying God, for having endowed you with such useful talents, and giving me so good a son. " Your affectionate father, THOMAS LYTTELTON.
Page 427 - Miscellanea Sacra; or a New Method of considering so much of the History of the Apostles as is contained in Scripture; in an Abstract of their History, an Abstract of that Abstract, and four Critical Essays, Lon., 1725, 2 vols.