The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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Halaman 11
... Some Some of the players accidentally converfe- ing with him , WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR . FI.
... Some Some of the players accidentally converfe- ing with him , WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR . FI.
Halaman 12
... Some of the players accidentally converfe- ing with him , found him fo acute , and mafter of fo fine a converfation , that , ftruck there- with , they recommended him to the house , in which he was first admitted in a very low station ...
... Some of the players accidentally converfe- ing with him , found him fo acute , and mafter of fo fine a converfation , that , ftruck there- with , they recommended him to the house , in which he was first admitted in a very low station ...
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... Some of that family being then remaining , the queen was pleafed to command him to alter it ; upon which he made ufe of the name of Falstaff . The first offence was indeed avoided ; but I am not fure whether the author might not be ...
... Some of that family being then remaining , the queen was pleafed to command him to alter it ; upon which he made ufe of the name of Falstaff . The first offence was indeed avoided ; but I am not fure whether the author might not be ...
Halaman 21
... some of his comedies , are really tragedies , with a mixture of comedy amongst them . That way of tragi - comedy was the common mif- take of that age , and is indeed become fo agreeable to the English tafte , that though the feverest ...
... some of his comedies , are really tragedies , with a mixture of comedy amongst them . That way of tragi - comedy was the common mif- take of that age , and is indeed become fo agreeable to the English tafte , that though the feverest ...
Halaman 70
... some years at Westminster school , and made an extraordina- ry progress in claffical learning , fhe took him away , and obliged him to work under his step - father . This was nipping the firft fprig of his dawn- ing hopes in the bud ...
... some years at Westminster school , and made an extraordina- ry progress in claffical learning , fhe took him away , and obliged him to work under his step - father . This was nipping the firft fprig of his dawn- ing hopes in the bud ...
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Halaman 128 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Halaman 10 - 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.
Halaman 21 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Halaman 65 - Beg my dead body which, living, was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more — time and death call me away.
Halaman 138 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...
Halaman 20 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Halaman 65 - ... accusers; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom ! My dear wife, farewell! Bless my poor boy, pray for me, and let my good God hold you. both in his arms ! Written with the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, alas! overthrown...
Halaman 9 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Halaman 63 - I trust my blood will quench their malice that have thus cruelly murdered me, and that they will not seek also to kill thee and thine with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
Halaman 5 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.