A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of Their Works ...

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R. and J. Dodsley; and J. Graham, 1759 - Počet stran: 142
 

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Strana 183 - When we, at this distance of time, inquire what prodigious merits excited such admiration, what do we find? Great valour. — But it was an age of heroes. — In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through; and some absurd attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains; a proof that this applauded author understood little of the genius of his own language.
Strana 152 - ... an old hermit, a secretary of state, a brave soldier, and an esquire. The first presented him with a book of meditations, the second with political discourses, the third with orations of...
Strana 69 - He had before been sent embassador to negotiate a marriage between the king's sister and the duke of Burgundy; and in the same character concluded a treaty between king Edward and the duke of Bretagne. On prince Edward being created prince of Wales, he was appointed his governor, and had a grant of the office of chief butler of England; and was even on the point of attaining the...
Strana 225 - In 1616 he was made a knight of the bath at the creation of Charles prince of Wales. In...
Strana 24 - A method for the proceedings in the council," in the Cottouian library, and " King Edward Vlth's own arguments against the pope's supremacy, &c.
Strana 152 - In the after-supper, before the queen, they first delivered a well-penned speech, to move this worthy knight to leave his vain following of love, and to betake him to heavenly meditation...
Strana 41 - Quotations, puns, witticisms, superstition, oaths, vanity, prerogative, and pedantry, the ingredients of all his sacred majesty's performances, were the pure produce of his own capacity, and deserving all the incense offered to such immense erudition by the divines of his age, and the flatterers of his court.
Strana 182 - Sir Philip Sidney. The learned of Europe dedicated "•their works to him: the republic of Poland thought him at " leaft worthy to be in the nomination for their crown : all " the mufes of England wept his death. When we at this *< diftance of time enquire, what prodigious merits excited *' fuch admiration, what do we find ? Great valour.
Strana 77 - Whiche in makyn hadde suche intelligence, That thereof she was mireur and maistresse ; Hire werkes testifie thexperience; In Frenssh languaige was writen this sentence; And thus englished doth hit reherse Antoin Widevylle therle Ryvers.
Strana 141 - Vertue, the engraver, had a pocket book of Isaac Oliver, in which the latter had made a memorandum that the queen would not let him give any shade to her features, telling him, ' that shade was an accident, and not naturally existing in the face '. Her portraits are generally without shadow.

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