The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Томи 5 – 8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... taken with his handsome shape and ele- gant dancing at a court masque , characterizes as a great patron of learning and good sense , and one that managed that weighty part of lord chancellor with that equity and clearness of principle ...
... taken with his handsome shape and ele- gant dancing at a court masque , characterizes as a great patron of learning and good sense , and one that managed that weighty part of lord chancellor with that equity and clearness of principle ...
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... taken . By an act passed in 1585 ( the 27 Eliz . c . 2 ) every Jesuit or other popish priest was commanded to depart from the realm within forty days , on pain of death as a traitor , and every person receiving or relieving any such ...
... taken . By an act passed in 1585 ( the 27 Eliz . c . 2 ) every Jesuit or other popish priest was commanded to depart from the realm within forty days , on pain of death as a traitor , and every person receiving or relieving any such ...
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... taken up the pen for the purpose . Very soon after the death of Lei- cester the young Robert Devereux , Earl of Essex , whose mother Leicester had married , was taken into the same favour that had been so long enjoyed by the deceased ...
... taken up the pen for the purpose . Very soon after the death of Lei- cester the young Robert Devereux , Earl of Essex , whose mother Leicester had married , was taken into the same favour that had been so long enjoyed by the deceased ...
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... taken some pains to ascer- tain the authenticity of this manuscript , and , after a very careful inquiry , am perfectly satisfied that it is genuine . ' In 1796 , however , in his work on the Ireland forgeries , he asserts " I have ...
... taken some pains to ascer- tain the authenticity of this manuscript , and , after a very careful inquiry , am perfectly satisfied that it is genuine . ' In 1796 , however , in his work on the Ireland forgeries , he asserts " I have ...
Сторінка 41
... taken very laudable pains to show that there was another John Shakspere in Strat- ford , a shoemaker , who married in 1584 , and actually received a loan out of a charity - fund about that time , does not suggest the possibility that ...
... taken very laudable pains to show that there was another John Shakspere in Strat- ford , a shoemaker , who married in 1584 , and actually received a loan out of a charity - fund about that time , does not suggest the possibility that ...
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Сторінка 19 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Сторінка 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Сторінка 52 - 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...
Сторінка 124 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Сторінка 57 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Сторінка 41 - It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords.
Сторінка 44 - 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 Charlcote, near Stratford.
Сторінка 46 - I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a...
Сторінка 73 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Сторінка 110 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.