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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... Hiftory of Gargantua and Pantagruel a rough fatire , in the form of a romance , upon monks , priests , popes , and fools and knaves of all kinds ; where wit and learning are fcattered about with great profufion , but in a manner wild ...
... Hiftory of Gargantua and Pantagruel a rough fatire , in the form of a romance , upon monks , priests , popes , and fools and knaves of all kinds ; where wit and learning are fcattered about with great profufion , but in a manner wild ...
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... hiftory of his own time , under an ingenious fiction and borrowed names . Özell published afterwards a new tranflation , with Duchat's notes , 5 vols . 120 . RACAN ( HONORAT de BEVIL , Marquis of ) , a French poet , was born at Roche ...
... hiftory of his own time , under an ingenious fiction and borrowed names . Özell published afterwards a new tranflation , with Duchat's notes , 5 vols . 120 . RACAN ( HONORAT de BEVIL , Marquis of ) , a French poet , was born at Roche ...
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... hiftory of Lewis XIV ; and the public expected great things from two writers of their diftinction , but were disappointed . " Boileau and Ra- " cine , " fays de Valincour , after having for fome " time laboured at this work , perceived ...
... hiftory of Lewis XIV ; and the public expected great things from two writers of their diftinction , but were disappointed . " Boileau and Ra- " cine , " fays de Valincour , after having for fome " time laboured at this work , perceived ...
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... account may be feen in the " Biographia Dramatica . " Though he did not fucceed as a poet , he was a very ingenious profe writer . His " Hiftory of England , " commencing with the the reign of the Stuarts , is much efteemed , 20 RAINOLDS .
... account may be feen in the " Biographia Dramatica . " Though he did not fucceed as a poet , he was a very ingenious profe writer . His " Hiftory of England , " commencing with the the reign of the Stuarts , is much efteemed , 20 RAINOLDS .
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... Hiftory of diments of mufic , he left his native country , and wan- dered about with the performers of a ftrolling opera . At eighteen , he compofed a mufical entertainment , which was represented at Avignon : afterwards , travelling ...
... Hiftory of diments of mufic , he left his native country , and wan- dered about with the performers of a ftrolling opera . At eighteen , he compofed a mufical entertainment , which was represented at Avignon : afterwards , travelling ...
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