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.., Volume 13J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1817 |
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... sent to school at Dundee . In 1295 , he was in- sulted by the son of Selby , an Englishman , constable of the port and castle of Dundee , and killed him ; on which be fled , and appears to have lived a roving and irregular life , often ...
... sent to school at Dundee . In 1295 , he was in- sulted by the son of Selby , an Englishman , constable of the port and castle of Dundee , and killed him ; on which be fled , and appears to have lived a roving and irregular life , often ...
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... sent to parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and frequented the court of James the first . His political and poetical life began nearly together . In his eighteenth year he wrote a poem that appears first in his ...
... sent to parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and frequented the court of James the first . His political and poetical life began nearly together . In his eighteenth year he wrote a poem that appears first in his ...
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... sent particularly to Waller , to se- cond his demand of some subsidies to pay off the army ; and sir Henry Vane objecting against first voting a supply , because the king would not accept unless it came up to his proportion , Mr. Waller ...
... sent particularly to Waller , to se- cond his demand of some subsidies to pay off the army ; and sir Henry Vane objecting against first voting a supply , because the king would not accept unless it came up to his proportion , Mr. Waller ...
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... sent him a thousand broad - pieces . He continued , however , to sit in parliament ; but spoke , " says Clarendon , " with great sharpness and freedom , which , now there was no danger of being out - voted , was not restrained ; and ...
... sent him a thousand broad - pieces . He continued , however , to sit in parliament ; but spoke , " says Clarendon , " with great sharpness and freedom , which , now there was no danger of being out - voted , was not restrained ; and ...
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... sent guards to proper places , and that might apprehended Tomkyns and Waller ; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted , from which it appeared that the parliament and the city were soon to be delivered into the ...
... sent guards to proper places , and that might apprehended Tomkyns and Waller ; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted , from which it appeared that the parliament and the city were soon to be delivered into the ...
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Page 386 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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Page 111 - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
Page 320 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways...
Page 380 - Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to...
Page 276 - Whitlocked, with his usual candour, never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, "with more •wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, •with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and" -with a better grace in all his -words and actions, than did this great and excellent person ; and b» moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
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Page 58 - In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.