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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... 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 .
... 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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... Poet was the Mufician's fervant ; " but Rameau would fay , " Give me but a Holland Gazette , and I will " fet it to mufic " and we are almoft ready to concur with him , inafmuch as we have known the London Cries of " The laft dying ...
... Poet was the Mufician's fervant ; " but Rameau would fay , " Give me but a Holland Gazette , and I will " fet it to mufic " and we are almoft ready to concur with him , inafmuch as we have known the London Cries of " The laft dying ...
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... fpread very much in Scotland and England , and ftill more in Germany ; as appears from many books , which feveral German Ariftotelians pub- lithed against the Ramifts . RANDOLPH RANDOLPH ( THOMAS ) , an English poet , was 28 RAMUS .
... fpread very much in Scotland and England , and ftill more in Germany ; as appears from many books , which feveral German Ariftotelians pub- lithed against the Ramifts . RANDOLPH RANDOLPH ( THOMAS ) , an English poet , was 28 RAMUS .
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... poet , was the Athen . fon of a fteward to Edward lord Zouch ; and born in Oxon.- Langbaine's Northamptonshire , ( Wood fays , at Newnham near Dain- Account of try ; Langbaine , at Houghton ) in 1605. He was edu- the drama- cated at ...
... poet , was the Athen . fon of a fteward to Edward lord Zouch ; and born in Oxon.- Langbaine's Northamptonshire , ( Wood fays , at Newnham near Dain- Account of try ; Langbaine , at Houghton ) in 1605. He was edu- the drama- cated at ...
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... poet of thofe times . He refided in the Middle - Temple , but with no view of studying the law ; for he declared exprefsly at his trial , that he had never ftudied it . On the contrary , his mind was ftill bent on military glory ; and ...
... poet of thofe times . He refided in the Middle - Temple , but with no view of studying the law ; for he declared exprefsly at his trial , that he had never ftudied it . On the contrary , his mind was ftill bent on military glory ; and ...
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