The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Volumen2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 páginas |
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... LONDON : Printed , and Sold by A. Betterworth , W. Taylor , and J. Batley , in Paternofter - Row ; J. Wyat and C. Rivington , in St. Paul's Church - yard ; E. Bell and W. Meadows in Cornhill and J. Pemberton and J. Hooke , in ...
... LONDON : Printed , and Sold by A. Betterworth , W. Taylor , and J. Batley , in Paternofter - Row ; J. Wyat and C. Rivington , in St. Paul's Church - yard ; E. Bell and W. Meadows in Cornhill and J. Pemberton and J. Hooke , in ...
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... London . Afterwards he was Chaplain to the Rolls ; then Canon Refidentiary of Exeter , and Arch - Deacon of Totness : After this he was Dean of Carlisle , and preferr'd to the Deanery of Chrift - Church , in Oxford ; and in the Year ...
... London . Afterwards he was Chaplain to the Rolls ; then Canon Refidentiary of Exeter , and Arch - Deacon of Totness : After this he was Dean of Carlisle , and preferr'd to the Deanery of Chrift - Church , in Oxford ; and in the Year ...
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... London , he enter'd upon the practice of Phyfick , and not long after , he was chofen Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians by the Charter of King James the fecond . He was fworn Phyfician in Or- dinary to King William , in 1697 ...
... London , he enter'd upon the practice of Phyfick , and not long after , he was chofen Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians by the Charter of King James the fecond . He was fworn Phyfician in Or- dinary to King William , in 1697 ...
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... London , he foon became ac- quainted with the Wits of the Town ; for he was a Facetious and Excellent Companion , tho ' withal fometimes very Satirical , and what is too common with Great Wits , his belt Friends could not escape his ...
... London , he foon became ac- quainted with the Wits of the Town ; for he was a Facetious and Excellent Companion , tho ' withal fometimes very Satirical , and what is too common with Great Wits , his belt Friends could not escape his ...
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... London , by his own Words in The Teftament of Love , where he fays , The City of London is very dear to him in which he was forth grown , & His Education , he owed to both the Univerfi- ties , Oxford and Cambridge ; where he became an ...
... London , by his own Words in The Teftament of Love , where he fays , The City of London is very dear to him in which he was forth grown , & His Education , he owed to both the Univerfi- ties , Oxford and Cambridge ; where he became an ...
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Página 198 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Página 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
Página 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Página 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
Página 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Página 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
Página 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Página 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
Página 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.