The General Biographical Dictionary, Volumen18Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... genius which he had given to the public : he had published many years before , about 1637 , a Latin poem , entitled " De Mirabilibus Pecci , or , Of the Wonders of the Peak . " But his poetry is below criticism , and has been long ...
... genius which he had given to the public : he had published many years before , about 1637 , a Latin poem , entitled " De Mirabilibus Pecci , or , Of the Wonders of the Peak . " But his poetry is below criticism , and has been long ...
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... genius enough to give authority to the former , or make us forgive the latter : too inaccurate for scene - painting , too mannered for local representation , and not sublime or comprehensive enough for poetic landscape ; yet , by mere ...
... genius enough to give authority to the former , or make us forgive the latter : too inaccurate for scene - painting , too mannered for local representation , and not sublime or comprehensive enough for poetic landscape ; yet , by mere ...
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... genius , is said by Dr. Burn to have been the descendant of a family originally from Kirkby Thore in Westmoreland . His grandfather , a plain yeoman , possessed a small tene- ment in the vale of Bampton , a village about fifteen miles ...
... genius , is said by Dr. Burn to have been the descendant of a family originally from Kirkby Thore in Westmoreland . His grandfather , a plain yeoman , possessed a small tene- ment in the vale of Bampton , a village about fifteen miles ...
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... genius became conspicuously known . The third scene of his " Harlot's Progress , " introduced him to the notice of the great . At a board of treasury which was held a day or two after the appearance of that print , a copy of it was ...
... genius became conspicuously known . The third scene of his " Harlot's Progress , " introduced him to the notice of the great . At a board of treasury which was held a day or two after the appearance of that print , a copy of it was ...
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... Genius " Hogarth would draw him ( Envy must allow ) [ NOW . " E'en to the life , was HOGARTH LIVING How little did the sportive satirist ima- gine the power of pleasing was so soon to cease in both ! Hogarth died in four weeks after the ...
... Genius " Hogarth would draw him ( Envy must allow ) [ NOW . " E'en to the life , was HOGARTH LIVING How little did the sportive satirist ima- gine the power of pleasing was so soon to cease in both ! Hogarth died in four weeks after the ...
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Página 249 - He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or...
Página 249 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 304 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Página 421 - Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human (1733) he asserts that knowledge of God's essence and attributes can bo only " analogical
Página 457 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Página 173 - He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it : and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done.
Página 306 - I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange...
Página 515 - Jewish Antiquities, or a Course of Lectures on the Three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron. To which is annexed a Dissertation on the Hebrew Language.
Página 29 - A History of English Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy's sitting in Parliament, in which is also comprehended the History of Parliaments, with an account of our ancient laws.
Página 220 - The nation as well as the university," says Bishop Burnet, "looked on all these proceedings with just indignation. It was thought an open piece of robbery and burglary when men, authorized by no legal commission, came and forcibly turned men out of their possession and freehold.