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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... writing . I cannot forbear giving the character of Shakespear in the words of a great genius , in a Prologue fpoken by Mr. Garrick when he first opened Drury - lane house as manager . When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes ...
... writing . I cannot forbear giving the character of Shakespear in the words of a great genius , in a Prologue fpoken by Mr. Garrick when he first opened Drury - lane house as manager . When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes ...
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... writers . In the Tem- pest , act v . fcene 11. Profpero fays , I have Called forth the mutinous winds , And , ' twixt the green fea , and the azur'd vault , Set roaring war ; to the dread ratling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted ...
... writers . In the Tem- pest , act v . fcene 11. Profpero fays , I have Called forth the mutinous winds , And , ' twixt the green fea , and the azur'd vault , Set roaring war ; to the dread ratling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted ...
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... writer . His name is printed , as the cuftom was in those times , amongst thofe of the other players , be- fore fome old plays , but without any particu- lar account of what fort of parts he ufed to play ; and Mr. Rowe fays , That ...
... writer . His name is printed , as the cuftom was in those times , amongst thofe of the other players , be- fore fome old plays , but without any particu- lar account of what fort of parts he ufed to play ; and Mr. Rowe fays , That ...
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... writing the Merry Wives of Windfor . How well he was obeyed , the play itself is a proof . And here I cannot help obferving , That a poet feldom fucceeds in any fubject affigned him , fo well as in that which is his own choice , and ...
... writing the Merry Wives of Windfor . How well he was obeyed , the play itself is a proof . And here I cannot help obferving , That a poet feldom fucceeds in any fubject affigned him , fo well as in that which is his own choice , and ...
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... writing , he never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , would he had blotted out a thoufand ! which they thought had been a malevolent fpeech . I had not told pofterity this , but for their ignorance , who chufe that circumftance ...
... writing , he never blotted out a line . My answer hath been , would he had blotted out a thoufand ! which they thought had been a malevolent fpeech . I had not told pofterity this , but for their ignorance , who chufe that circumftance ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.