Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Tom 5Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... taken from school at the age of 15 , and placed as an assistant clerk in the India House . In this situation he showed so much talent and industry , that he attracted the notice of the directors , and in 1805 was appointed under ...
... taken from school at the age of 15 , and placed as an assistant clerk in the India House . In this situation he showed so much talent and industry , that he attracted the notice of the directors , and in 1805 was appointed under ...
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... taken with him from home , a set of thirty - six prints engraved on wood by Albert Dürer , repre- senting the Life and Passion of Our Saviour . ' Charmed with the correctness of the design and the precision of the execution , he ...
... taken with him from home , a set of thirty - six prints engraved on wood by Albert Dürer , repre- senting the Life and Passion of Our Saviour . ' Charmed with the correctness of the design and the precision of the execution , he ...
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... taken from objects in his museum , which , after his death , went to the Cabinet du Roi . Réaumur passed a quiet retired life , and his private history is unmarked by any import- ant incident . He is said to have died from the effects ...
... taken from objects in his museum , which , after his death , went to the Cabinet du Roi . Réaumur passed a quiet retired life , and his private history is unmarked by any import- ant incident . He is said to have died from the effects ...
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... taken from a similar work composed by Theon of Alexandria . It gives the length of day at all places situated between the parallels of 36 ° and 55 ° N. lat . , and for every three degrees of the sun's longitude . On the appearance of ...
... taken from a similar work composed by Theon of Alexandria . It gives the length of day at all places situated between the parallels of 36 ° and 55 ° N. lat . , and for every three degrees of the sun's longitude . On the appearance of ...
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... taken to Constantinople , where he remained two years . On his return to Algiers he was ran- somed for a considerable sum by the French consul ; a ransom which came most opportunely , as he was about to suffer the last penalty for an ...
... taken to Constantinople , where he remained two years . On his return to Algiers he was ran- somed for a considerable sum by the French consul ; a ransom which came most opportunely , as he was about to suffer the last penalty for an ...
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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.