A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period ...W. Strahan, 1784 - Biography |
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Page 285 - God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell...
Page 55 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests.
Page 206 - He went thither the Saturday before the fire broke out, and called for the key of the place where the heads of the pipes were...
Page 431 - ... with him, but a desire of information and instruction ; yet he had so subtle a way of interrogating, and under the notion of doubts, insinuating his objections; that he infused his own opinions 'into those from whom he pretended to learn and receive them.
Page 285 - Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Page 87 - DESIGN or Chance makes others wive, But Nature did this match contrive : Eve might as well have Adam fled, As she denied her little bed To him, for whom Heav'n seem'd to frame And measure out this only dame.
Page 56 - O that I had never known what a court was! Dear Pope, what a barren soil (to me so) have I been striving to produce something out of! Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the duke, not to write them? Or rather, to write them for some young nobleman? It is my very hard fate, I must get nothing, write for them or against them.
Page 430 - He was not a man of many words, and rarely began the discourse, or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed; but a very weighty speaker, and after he had heard a full debate, and observed how the House was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and clearly, and craftily, so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to...
Page 18 - ... and upon being told that Goodman's Fields theatre was crowded every night to see the new actor, he said " that Garrick was a new religion ; Whitfield was followed for a time ; but they would all come to church again.
Page 289 - Nay, with what crown does she present me ! a crown which hath been violently and shamefully wrested from Catharine of Arragon, made more unfortunate by the punishment of Anne Boleyn, and others that wore it after her : and why then would you have me add my blood to theirs, and be the third victim, from whom this fatal crown may be ravished with the head that wears it...