The Biographical Magazine: Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters, Tom 2E. Wilson., 1820 |
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... appeared his capital poem , “ On the Pleasures of the Imagination , " which was received with great applause , and at once raised the author into celebrity . This poem was soon followed by a very warm invective against the political ...
... appeared his capital poem , “ On the Pleasures of the Imagination , " which was received with great applause , and at once raised the author into celebrity . This poem was soon followed by a very warm invective against the political ...
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... appeared in the double capacity of author and physician , and his first publication , in 1735 , was a humourous attack upon empirics , in the manner of Lucian , entitled " An Essay for abridging the Study of Physic , & c . " In 1737 ...
... appeared in the double capacity of author and physician , and his first publication , in 1735 , was a humourous attack upon empirics , in the manner of Lucian , entitled " An Essay for abridging the Study of Physic , & c . " In 1737 ...
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... united labours of Theobald , Sympson , and Seward , appeared in 1751 ; and another also in ten volumes , but much more correct , was published by Colman , in 1778 . WILLIAM BECKFORD . Or the early years and education of. 15 Holla.
... united labours of Theobald , Sympson , and Seward , appeared in 1751 ; and another also in ten volumes , but much more correct , was published by Colman , in 1778 . WILLIAM BECKFORD . Or the early years and education of. 15 Holla.
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... appearance of the Swedish hussars , then quartered in the island , that no entreaties could prevent him from entering into the regi- ment of Morner . The first enemy he drew his sword against was the Black or Death's Head hussars , the ...
... appearance of the Swedish hussars , then quartered in the island , that no entreaties could prevent him from entering into the regi- ment of Morner . The first enemy he drew his sword against was the Black or Death's Head hussars , the ...
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... appeared before the public as a writer of satires . These were followed by Epistles , after the manner of Horace , and one of these had the good fortune to please the King ; though , sometime before this , Boileau had composed his Art ...
... appeared before the public as a writer of satires . These were followed by Epistles , after the manner of Horace , and one of these had the good fortune to please the King ; though , sometime before this , Boileau had composed his Art ...
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admiral afterwards appeared appointed archbishop army became bishop Bishop of Winchester bishop Warburton Boileau born Cambridge celebrated character Charles church College court Cromwell daughter death died distinguished divinity Duke Earl Edinburgh elected elegant eminent England Essay father favour fortune France French gave genius George George Lisle Hadham Hebrew language Henry honour interred John JOHN HORNE TOOKE King King's lady Latin learned letters literary lived London Lord Camden Lord Chancellor lord high lordship Majesty Marquis married master noble obtained Oxford painter painting Paris parliament patron persons poem poet poetical preached Prince printed published Queen received Rembrandt reputation resided resigned retired returned royal Scotland secretary sent soon talents Thomas took university of Aberdeen university of Edinburgh university of Oxford volumes Walpole Westminster Westminster school whilst Wilkes William Winchester writings wrote young
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Strona 16 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Strona 20 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
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Strona 13 - By his natural temper he was quick of resentment ; but by his established and habitual practice he was gentle, modest, and inoffensive. His tenderness appeared in his attention to children, and to the poor. To the poor, while he lived in the family of his friend* h,e allowed the third part of his annual revenue...
Strona 11 - No distractions of mind, no foreboding terrors of conscience agitated this attractive scene. His chamber was " privileged beyond the common walks of virtuous life — quite in the verge of heaven" — and he expired like a wave scarcely curling to the evening zephyr of an unclouded summer sky, and gently rippling to the shore. It was a
Strona 15 - ... and agitated him, and when he returned to college, he was so completely ill, that no power of medicine could save him. His mind was worn out, and it was the opinion of his medical attendants, that if he had recovered, his intellect would have been affected.
Strona 7 - These busy scenes were blended with, and terminated by meditation and philosophic inquiries. Strip each period of its excesses and errors, and it will not be easy to trace out, or dispose the life of a man of quality into a succession of employments which would better become him. Valour and military activity in youth, business of state in the middle age, contemplation and labour for the information of posterity in the calmer scenes of closing life.