A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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... Rome . The place of his birth was Arpinum ; a city anciently of the Sam- nites , now part of the kingdom of Naples . It had the honour also of producing the great C. Marius ; which gave occafion to Pompey to fay in a public speech , that ...
... Rome . The place of his birth was Arpinum ; a city anciently of the Sam- nites , now part of the kingdom of Naples . It had the honour also of producing the great C. Marius ; which gave occafion to Pompey to fay in a public speech , that ...
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... Rome with his coufins , the young Aculeos , in a method approved and directed by L. Craffus , and placed there in a public school under an eminent greek master ; which was thought the best way of educating one , who was designed to ...
... Rome with his coufins , the young Aculeos , in a method approved and directed by L. Craffus , and placed there in a public school under an eminent greek master ; which was thought the best way of educating one , who was designed to ...
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... Rome , that it was the common exercise of boys at school , to learn the laws of the 12 tables by heart , as they did their poets and classic authors . In the mean time he did not neglect his poetical studies , which he had pursued under ...
... Rome , that it was the common exercise of boys at school , to learn the laws of the 12 tables by heart , as they did their poets and classic authors . In the mean time he did not neglect his poetical studies , which he had pursued under ...
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... Rome , and after one year more spent at the bar , obtained in the next place the dignity of quæf- tor . Among the causes which he pleaded before his quæstor- ship was that of the famous comedian Roscius , whom a fin- gular merit in his ...
... Rome , and after one year more spent at the bar , obtained in the next place the dignity of quæf- tor . Among the causes which he pleaded before his quæstor- ship was that of the famous comedian Roscius , whom a fin- gular merit in his ...
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... Rome , where he employed himself conftantly in defending the perfons and properties of its citizens , and was indeed a general patron , Five years were almost elapfed , fince Cicero's election to the quæstorship , which was the proper ...
... Rome , where he employed himself conftantly in defending the perfons and properties of its citizens , and was indeed a general patron , Five years were almost elapfed , fince Cicero's election to the quæstorship , which was the proper ...
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Page 205 - Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted aisle; We'll listenLeonora. Hark! Almeria. No, all is hush'd and still as death, — Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
Page 137 - ... 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. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 205 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness 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.
Page 318 - ... to lie Spenser's works; this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights and giants and monsters and brave houses which I found everywhere there...
Page 503 - Davenant. It being forbidden him in the rebellious times to act tragedies and comedies, because they contained some matter of scandal to those good people who could more easily dispossess their lawful sovereign than endure a wanton jest, he was forced to turn his thoughts another way, and to introduce the examples of moral virtue writ in verse, and performed in recitative music.
Page 477 - His unusual dress and figure, when he was in London, never failed to draw after him a great crowd of boys, and other young people, who constantly attended at his lodgings, and followed him with huzzas, as he went to court, or returned from it. As he was a man of humour, he would always thank them for their civilities...
Page 150 - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics...
Page 477 - ... attended at his lodgings, and followed him with huzzas, as he went to court, or returned from it. As he was a man of humour, he would always thank them for their civilities, when he left them at the door, to go...
Page 142 - The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith...
Page 204 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.