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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... lefs confpi- cuous , in many references to particular paf- fages ; and the fpeeches copied from Plutarch . in Coriolanus , may as well be made inftances of his learning , as thofe copied from Cicero in the Cataline of Ben Johnson ...
... lefs confpi- cuous , in many references to particular paf- fages ; and the fpeeches copied from Plutarch . in Coriolanus , may as well be made inftances of his learning , as thofe copied from Cicero in the Cataline of Ben Johnson ...
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... lefs alarming ; but then , Shakespear does not much fine when he is confidered by particular paffages ; he fome- times debafes the nobleft images in nature , by expreffions which are too vulgar for poetry . The ingenious author of the ...
... lefs alarming ; but then , Shakespear does not much fine when he is confidered by particular paffages ; he fome- times debafes the nobleft images in nature , by expreffions which are too vulgar for poetry . The ingenious author of the ...
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... lefs I can deferve , the more liberal your ma- jefty's gift fhall be . Herein you fhall only imitate God , giving free life and by giving to fuch a one from whom there tribution , but only a defire to with the fame great love which the ...
... lefs I can deferve , the more liberal your ma- jefty's gift fhall be . Herein you fhall only imitate God , giving free life and by giving to fuch a one from whom there tribution , but only a defire to with the fame great love which the ...
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... lefs ; but pay it I never fhall in this world . Secondly , I beseech you , for the love you bare me living , do not hide yourself many days , but , by your travels , feek to help your miferable fortunes , and the right of your poor ...
... lefs ; but pay it I never fhall in this world . Secondly , I beseech you , for the love you bare me living , do not hide yourself many days , but , by your travels , feek to help your miferable fortunes , and the right of your poor ...
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... lefs poetic boys , When their pot - guns aim to hit , With their pellets of fmall wit , Parts of one ( they judg'd ) decay'd , But we laft out ftill unlay'd . 8 Please your majesty to make , Of your grace , for goodness ' fake , Thofe ...
... lefs poetic boys , When their pot - guns aim to hit , With their pellets of fmall wit , Parts of one ( they judg'd ) decay'd , But we laft out ftill unlay'd . 8 Please your majesty to make , Of your grace , for goodness ' fake , Thofe ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.