The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 - Biography |
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... elegance with utility . The duke of Bridgewater perceiving , more . and more , the importance of these inland navigations , extended his ideas to Liverpool ; and though he had every difficulty to encounter , that could arise from the ...
... elegance with utility . The duke of Bridgewater perceiving , more . and more , the importance of these inland navigations , extended his ideas to Liverpool ; and though he had every difficulty to encounter , that could arise from the ...
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... elegant arts . The only fault he was observed to fall into , was his suffering himself to be prevailed upon to engage in more concerns than could be completely at- tended to by any single man , how eminent soever might be his abilities ...
... elegant arts . The only fault he was observed to fall into , was his suffering himself to be prevailed upon to engage in more concerns than could be completely at- tended to by any single man , how eminent soever might be his abilities ...
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... elegant style . Hither he re- tired , after doing his business , which he began gradually to contract into a narrower circle . With that view , a few years after , he gave up his situation as surgeon to the Lock hospital . His other ...
... elegant style . Hither he re- tired , after doing his business , which he began gradually to contract into a narrower circle . With that view , a few years after , he gave up his situation as surgeon to the Lock hospital . His other ...
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... elegance of the words , and the excellence of the music , promise a long duration to this drama . Her concluding work was " Marian , " acted 1788 at Covent - garden with some success , but very much inferior to Rosina . ' BROOKE ( HENRY ) ...
... elegance of the words , and the excellence of the music , promise a long duration to this drama . Her concluding work was " Marian , " acted 1788 at Covent - garden with some success , but very much inferior to Rosina . ' BROOKE ( HENRY ) ...
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... elegant and valuable tokens of his friend- ship . " Amidst such society , he had every thing to point his ambition to fame and independence , and readily caught that fervour of patriotic enthusiasm which was the bond of union and the ...
... elegant and valuable tokens of his friend- ship . " Amidst such society , he had every thing to point his ambition to fame and independence , and readily caught that fervour of patriotic enthusiasm which was the bond of union and the ...
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Page 338 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 338 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 332 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 137 - He was once a man, and of some little name, but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Page 144 - But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling.
Page 382 - Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang.
Page 144 - ... a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Page 463 - Grace to name a day, when he might introduce that modest and unfortu nate poet to his new patron. At last an appointment was made, and the place of meeting was agreed to be the Roebuck. Mr. Butler and his friend attended accordingly ; the Duke joined them...
Page 463 - When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part appeared; the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, and the writer was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, says Wood, gave him reason to hope for " places and employments...