Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... appointed curé or rector of Meudon , in which situation he continued till his death in 1553 . Rabelais was a man of extensive and varied information ; he was acquainted with the principal European languages , besides Latin and Greek ...
... appointed curé or rector of Meudon , in which situation he continued till his death in 1553 . Rabelais was a man of extensive and varied information ; he was acquainted with the principal European languages , besides Latin and Greek ...
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... appointed by the Princess Anne her principal physician , and from this time till his death he enjoyed the undisputed favour of the court , during the reigns of William and Anne ; and although he often offended both the king and queen by ...
... appointed by the Princess Anne her principal physician , and from this time till his death he enjoyed the undisputed favour of the court , during the reigns of William and Anne ; and although he often offended both the king and queen by ...
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... appointed under - secretary to the new government formed by the East India Company at Pulo- Penang , or Prince of Wales ' Island . Here he devoted his attention to the study of the Malay language , the vernacular dialect of almost all ...
... appointed under - secretary to the new government formed by the East India Company at Pulo- Penang , or Prince of Wales ' Island . Here he devoted his attention to the study of the Malay language , the vernacular dialect of almost all ...
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... appointed by the Duke of Wellington , then master of the ordnance , to be his military secre- tary . This post he retained until 1827 , when he accompanied the duke to the Horse Guards as military secretary . Here he remained until ...
... appointed by the Duke of Wellington , then master of the ordnance , to be his military secre- tary . This post he retained until 1827 , when he accompanied the duke to the Horse Guards as military secretary . Here he remained until ...
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... appointed upper - master of the gymnasium at Frankfurt - on - the - Oder , but devoted all his leisure to the study of history . The first fruits of his labours were a History of the Roman and German People , from 1494 to 1535 , ' and a ...
... appointed upper - master of the gymnasium at Frankfurt - on - the - Oder , but devoted all his leisure to the study of history . The first fruits of his labours were a History of the Roman and German People , from 1494 to 1535 , ' and a ...
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Strona 453 - Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Strona 451 - ... if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Strona 451 - For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Strona 455 - The humour of ... the constable, in A Midsummer Night's Dreame, he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks, which is the roade from London to Stratford, and there was living that constable about 1642, when I first came to Oxon.
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Strona 451 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him.
Strona 97 - Half a Dozen of them when met to work with their Needles, used, when they got a Book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their Mothers sometimes with them; and both Mothers and Daughters used to be pleased with the Observations they put me upon making.
Strona 445 - Steevens, the most acute, and perhaps the most learned, of his commentators, stated, long before, that " all that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is — that he was • born at Stratford-upon-Avon — married and had children there — went to London, where he commenced actor and wrote poems and plays — returned to Stratford, made his will, died, and was buried.
Strona 449 - ... as gentlemen. His father, who was a considerable dealer in wool, had so large a family, ten children in all, that though he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Strona 39 - The Whole Booke of Psalmes : With the Hymnes Evangelicall and Songs Spirituall. Composed into 4 parts by Sundry Authors with severall Tunes as have been and are usually sung in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands : Never as yet before in one Volume published.