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Sayfa 5
... prefent at the academy . He was feventy - one years of age ; fhort of ftature , and of a long and meagre visage . He was a great promoter of virtue and learning ; and if he was fomewhat partial to antiquity , yet he is to be excused ...
... prefent at the academy . He was feventy - one years of age ; fhort of ftature , and of a long and meagre visage . He was a great promoter of virtue and learning ; and if he was fomewhat partial to antiquity , yet he is to be excused ...
Sayfa 33
... prefent . * Being arrived at Turin , he had fome trouble to confute by his presence the falfe report of his execution , which had been read in the Burlesque gazette . He laboured to procure a fet- tlement in that court , and fuppofes he ...
... prefent . * Being arrived at Turin , he had fome trouble to confute by his presence the falfe report of his execution , which had been read in the Burlesque gazette . He laboured to procure a fet- tlement in that court , and fuppofes he ...
Sayfa 56
... prefent . Scaliger tells us , and he laughs at him for it , that he spent the latter part of his life in endeavouring to find all the bible in Homer . He died at Paris upon the first of November 1588 , above four- fcore years of age ...
... prefent . Scaliger tells us , and he laughs at him for it , that he spent the latter part of his life in endeavouring to find all the bible in Homer . He died at Paris upon the first of November 1588 , above four- fcore years of age ...
Sayfa 62
... prefent the book which he dedicated to the then em- peror Maximilian , and returned into England the fame fum- mer . In 1568 , he engaged the earl of Pembroke to present the queen with his Propædumata aphoriftica ; and two years after ...
... prefent the book which he dedicated to the then em- peror Maximilian , and returned into England the fame fum- mer . In 1568 , he engaged the earl of Pembroke to present the queen with his Propædumata aphoriftica ; and two years after ...
Sayfa 66
... prefent , and promises of preferment ; but these promifes ending like the former in nothing , he engaged his patronefs , the countess of Warwick , to present another short Latin petition to the queen . What followed does not appear ...
... prefent , and promises of preferment ; but these promifes ending like the former in nothing , he engaged his patronefs , the countess of Warwick , to present another short Latin petition to the queen . What followed does not appear ...
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Sayfa 414 - Terra : a philosophical discourse of earth, relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, &c.
Sayfa 238 - When men were outlawed in personal actions, they would not permit them to purchase their charters of pardon, except they paid great and intolerable sums ; standing upon the strict point of law, which upon outlawries giveth forfeiture of goods; nay, contrary to all law and colour, they maintained the king ought to have the half of men's lands and rents, during the space of full two years, for a pain in case of outlawry.
Sayfa 175 - Donne very sad, and sick in her bed; and that after a long and dangerous labour, she had been delivered of a dead child. And, upon examination, the abortion proved to be the same day, and about the very hour, that Mr Donne affirmed he saw her pass by him in his chamber.
Sayfa 176 - His first motion from his house was to preach where his beloved wife lay buried, in St. Clement's Church, near Temple Bar, London ; and his text was a part of the prophet Jeremy's Lamentation : " Lo, I am the man that have seen affliction.
Sayfa 177 - Dr Donne, I have invited you to dinner; and, though you sit not down with me, yet I will carve to you of a dish that I know you love well; for, knowing you love London, I do therefore make you Dean of St Paul's; and, when I have dined, then do you take your beloved dish home to your study, say grace there to yourself, and much good may it do you.
Sayfa 178 - He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equallyproportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind.
Sayfa 189 - She likewise gave directions for the preservation of his ship, that it might remain a monument of his own and his country's glory.
Sayfa 179 - Characters, written by Dr. Donne, Dean of Pauls ; to which is added a Book of Epigrams, written in Latin by the same author ; translated into English by J. Maine, DD ; and also Ignatius his Conclave, a Satyr, translated out of the original copy, written in Latin by the same author ; found lately amongst his own papers.
Sayfa 443 - Who shall have it But I, the true laureate, to whom the king gave it? Apollo begg'd pardon, and granted his claim, But vow'd that till then he ne'er heard of his name.
Sayfa 45 - ... writ in verse, and performed in recitative music. The original of this music, and of the scenes which adorned his work, he had from the Italian operas ; but he heightened his characters (as I may probably imagine) from the example of Corneille and some French poets. In this condition did this part of poetry remain at his Majesty's return; when, growing bolder, as being now owned by a public authority, he reviewed his Siege of Rhodes, and caused it be acted as a just drama.