Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... remarkable aspect , an exceed ing high forehead , long faced , and ' sour eie - lidded , a kind of pigge- eie . ' " In an age of magnificence in dress , Raleigh was conspicuous for his splendour . Of an original and versatile genius ...
... remarkable aspect , an exceed ing high forehead , long faced , and ' sour eie - lidded , a kind of pigge- eie . ' " In an age of magnificence in dress , Raleigh was conspicuous for his splendour . Of an original and versatile genius ...
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... remarkable for perspicuity . This was felt and acknowledged by his most zealous partisan , D'Alem- bert , who , in his ' Elémens de Musique , théorique et pratique , suivant les Principes de M. Rameau , ' has endeavoured to clear the ...
... remarkable for perspicuity . This was felt and acknowledged by his most zealous partisan , D'Alem- bert , who , in his ' Elémens de Musique , théorique et pratique , suivant les Principes de M. Rameau , ' has endeavoured to clear the ...
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... remarkable for the supe- riority of their object - glasses ; and in his mural quadrants , furnished to the observatories of Padua and Vilna , Dr. Maskelyne was unable to detect an error amounting to two seconds and a half , a degree of ...
... remarkable for the supe- riority of their object - glasses ; and in his mural quadrants , furnished to the observatories of Padua and Vilna , Dr. Maskelyne was unable to detect an error amounting to two seconds and a half , a degree of ...
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... remarkable and original talent for the development of individual character and for the grouping of events , an integrity that could be thoroughly relied upon , and a lucid and easy style . His reputation was even increased by his next ...
... remarkable and original talent for the development of individual character and for the grouping of events , an integrity that could be thoroughly relied upon , and a lucid and easy style . His reputation was even increased by his next ...
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... remarkable for beauties of per- spective and playful imagery . At Siena he painted many works . The Adoration of the Magi , ' which is in the church of S. Agostino , resembles the style of Leonardo da Vinci ; but his chef - d'œuvre is ...
... remarkable for beauties of per- spective and playful imagery . At Siena he painted many works . The Adoration of the Magi , ' which is in the church of S. Agostino , resembles the style of Leonardo da Vinci ; but his chef - d'œuvre is ...
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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.