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... Paris and devote his time to literary pursuits . There by the interest of some friends he was made almoner to the duchess of Berri , daughter of the regent , and also ob- tained the place of king's interpreter for the Sclavonian and ...
... Paris and devote his time to literary pursuits . There by the interest of some friends he was made almoner to the duchess of Berri , daughter of the regent , and also ob- tained the place of king's interpreter for the Sclavonian and ...
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... Paris , and to the council , and member of the French academy , was born at Paris in 1596. His abilities and probity re- commended him to some very honourable employments , and he particularly enjoyed the confidence of cardinal Mazarin ...
... Paris , and to the council , and member of the French academy , was born at Paris in 1596. His abilities and probity re- commended him to some very honourable employments , and he particularly enjoyed the confidence of cardinal Mazarin ...
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... Paris , and Rome , and to have been very fami- liar with the writings of Aristotle , Plato , and Phiny ; from which , with his own observations , he compiled his cele- brated work " De Proprietatibus rerum , " a kind of gene- ral ...
... Paris , and Rome , and to have been very fami- liar with the writings of Aristotle , Plato , and Phiny ; from which , with his own observations , he compiled his cele- brated work " De Proprietatibus rerum , " a kind of gene- ral ...
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... Paris , Bologna , Naples , and in 1770 at London . In 1769 he produced " Alceste , " a second opera on the re- formed plan , which received even more applause than the first ; and in 1771 " Paride ed Helena ; " but in 1774 , his arrival ...
... Paris , Bologna , Naples , and in 1770 at London . In 1769 he produced " Alceste , " a second opera on the re- formed plan , which received even more applause than the first ; and in 1771 " Paride ed Helena ; " but in 1774 , his arrival ...
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... Paris , and being rendered incapable of writing by a para- lytic stroke in 1784 , only lingered in a debilitated state till the autumn of 1787 , when he died at the age of seventy- three . Gluck had great merit as a bold , daring ...
... Paris , and being rendered incapable of writing by a para- lytic stroke in 1784 , only lingered in a debilitated state till the autumn of 1787 , when he died at the age of seventy- three . Gluck had great merit as a bold , daring ...
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Σελίδα 320 - 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 mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Σελίδα 406 - He quotes them, as he tells us himself, as witnesses, whose conspiring testimony, mightily strengthened and confirmed by their discordance on almost every other subject, is a conclusive proof of the unanimity of the whole human race on the great rules of duty and the fundamental principles of morals. On such matters, poets and orators are the most unexceptionable of all witnesses ; for they address themselves to the general feelings and sympathies of mankind...
Σελίδα 84 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Σελίδα 319 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...
Σελίδα 319 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Σελίδα 62 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of the Christian religion in this island; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, so near as can be gathered of antiquity.
Σελίδα 327 - ... that such a meeting would rather add to his afflictions then increase his quiet, wherewith they had prepared their souls for the stroke of death ; that he demanded a lenitive which would put fire into the wound, and that it was to be feared her presence would rather weaken than strengthen him ; that he ought to take courage from his reason, and derive...
Σελίδα 218 - When matters (he says) were made up between Gray and Walpole, and the latter asked Gray to Strawberry Hill, when he came, he without any ceremony told Walpole, that he came to wait on him as civility required, but by no means would he ever be there on the terms of his former friendship, which he had totally cancelled.
Σελίδα 129 - SEPULCHRAL monuments in Great Britain applied to illustrate the history of families, manners, habits, and arts, at the different periods from the Norman Conquest to the seventeenth century.
Σελίδα 339 - Pilkington having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish.