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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... set up against a fuperior genius ; and one Pradon , a poet whofe name is not worth remembering , was then em- ployed by perfons of the first diftinction to have a Phædra " ready for the theatre , against the time that Racine's fhould ...
... set up against a fuperior genius ; and one Pradon , a poet whofe name is not worth remembering , was then em- ployed by perfons of the first diftinction to have a Phædra " ready for the theatre , against the time that Racine's fhould ...
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... set about this work , he did not think of writing a complete hiftory of England : but curiofity ard much leifure led him on from one ftep to another , till he came to the reign of Henry II ; and then , when he was upon the point of ...
... set about this work , he did not think of writing a complete hiftory of England : but curiofity ard much leifure led him on from one ftep to another , till he came to the reign of Henry II ; and then , when he was upon the point of ...
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... set up in Tower - ftreet for an Italian mountebank , where he practifed phyfic for fome weeks . He difguifed himself often as a porter , or as a beggar ; fometimes to follow fome mean amours , which , for the variety of them , he ...
... set up in Tower - ftreet for an Italian mountebank , where he practifed phyfic for fome weeks . He difguifed himself often as a porter , or as a beggar ; fometimes to follow fome mean amours , which , for the variety of them , he ...
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... set- tled fo heartily to the practice of his profeffion , as even to neglect every other pursuit and study , which had not some connexion with , or relation to it . A piece , which he published in 1665 , " De vafis lymphaticis et ...
... set- tled fo heartily to the practice of his profeffion , as even to neglect every other pursuit and study , which had not some connexion with , or relation to it . A piece , which he published in 1665 , " De vafis lymphaticis et ...
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... set but very little value upon his own performances : yet the Florentines had fo great an esteem for his works , that , during the fury of the popular factions among them , they preferved his pieces from the flames , when they fpared ...
... set but very little value upon his own performances : yet the Florentines had fo great an esteem for his works , that , during the fury of the popular factions among them , they preferved his pieces from the flames , when they fpared ...
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