Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... literary periodical called ' Bremer Beiträge . ' In 1741 he received an office in the board of taxes for the circle of Dresden , and in 1763 he was appointed counsellor of the court of aids ( Steuerrath ) , which office he held until ...
... literary periodical called ' Bremer Beiträge . ' In 1741 he received an office in the board of taxes for the circle of Dresden , and in 1763 he was appointed counsellor of the court of aids ( Steuerrath ) , which office he held until ...
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... literary tastes and talents , was born at Posen in 1786 , the son of Count Philip Raczynski , a Polish general . Count Eduard entered the Polish army , and took some share in Napoleon's campaign of 1807 ; but on the fall of Napoleon I ...
... literary tastes and talents , was born at Posen in 1786 , the son of Count Philip Raczynski , a Polish general . Count Eduard entered the Polish army , and took some share in Napoleon's campaign of 1807 ; but on the fall of Napoleon I ...
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... literary history of Denmark for an entire half century , was born at Copenhagen on the 18th of December 1760 . His father , who held the office of Toll - inspector , ' gave him an excellent education , sending him to the school of ...
... literary history of Denmark for an entire half century , was born at Copenhagen on the 18th of December 1760 . His father , who held the office of Toll - inspector , ' gave him an excellent education , sending him to the school of ...
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... literary per- formance , a poem , entitled ' Night . ' It is to this work that Pope alludes in the third book of the Dunciad , ' where he exclaims- " Silence , ye wolves , while Ralph to Cynthia howls , And makes night hideous ; answer ...
... literary per- formance , a poem , entitled ' Night . ' It is to this work that Pope alludes in the third book of the Dunciad , ' where he exclaims- " Silence , ye wolves , while Ralph to Cynthia howls , And makes night hideous ; answer ...
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... literary and fashionable circles of the Scottish capital ; and in 1721 he published a volume of his poems , which was very favourably received by his countrymen . In 1724 he published in two small volumes ' The Evergreen , being a ...
... literary and fashionable circles of the Scottish capital ; and in 1721 he published a volume of his poems , which was very favourably received by his countrymen . In 1724 he published in two small volumes ' The Evergreen , being 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.
Strona 267 - Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer...
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.