Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Boywer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of His Learned Friends : an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century: and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists : with a Very Copious Index, Volume 3author, 1812 - Authors, English |
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... College ; where he continued till he removed to Oxford , and was chosen demy of Magdalen College ; which he quitted ,, in 1715 , on account of the Abjuration - oath . After this , he tra- velled with several Noblemen and Gentlemen ...
... College ; where he continued till he removed to Oxford , and was chosen demy of Magdalen College ; which he quitted ,, in 1715 , on account of the Abjuration - oath . After this , he tra- velled with several Noblemen and Gentlemen ...
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... College , are filled with such curious explanatory Notes , as bear the most con- vincing marks of consummate ... Magdalen Hall , Oxford ; where , having proceeded in Arts , 1623 , he removed to the Middle Temple , and studied the ...
... College , are filled with such curious explanatory Notes , as bear the most con- vincing marks of consummate ... Magdalen Hall , Oxford ; where , having proceeded in Arts , 1623 , he removed to the Middle Temple , and studied the ...
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... Magdalen College , Cambridge , Β . Α . 1718 ; Μ . Α . 1722 ; D. D. Com . Reg . 1728 ; rector of St. James's Westminster 1729 , which he resigned in 1732 , on being appointed a canon residentiary of St. Paul's . He held also the prebend ...
... Magdalen College , Cambridge , Β . Α . 1718 ; Μ . Α . 1722 ; D. D. Com . Reg . 1728 ; rector of St. James's Westminster 1729 , which he resigned in 1732 , on being appointed a canon residentiary of St. Paul's . He held also the prebend ...
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... Magdalen college . Among the many poetical tributes paid to his memory , that by the Rev. Thomas Maurice , of the British Museum , seems entitled to the preference , from his accurate knowledge of Sir William Jones's character and ...
... Magdalen college . Among the many poetical tributes paid to his memory , that by the Rev. Thomas Maurice , of the British Museum , seems entitled to the preference , from his accurate knowledge of Sir William Jones's character and ...
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... Magdalen College , Ox- ford , where he took the degree of M. A. June 12 , 1734 . This learned and worthy gentleman ( who resided many years , and died , at Caversham , near Reading , May 16 , 1789 , æt . 78 ) , to the steadiest ...
... Magdalen College , Ox- ford , where he took the degree of M. A. June 12 , 1734 . This learned and worthy gentleman ( who resided many years , and died , at Caversham , near Reading , May 16 , 1789 , æt . 78 ) , to the steadiest ...
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Page 21 - I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 85 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give...
Page 616 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 367 - I declare, that to recommend goodness and innocence hath been my sincere endeavour in this history. This honest purpose you have been pleased to think I have attained : and to say the truth, it is likeliest to be attained in books of this kind ; for an example is a kind of picture, in which Virtue becomes as it were an object of sight, and strikes us with an idea of that loveliness which Plato asserts there is in her naked charms.
Page 356 - Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election ; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense.
Page 367 - I hope my reader will be convinced, at his very entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole course of it nothing prejudicial to the cause of religion and virtue, nothing inconsistent with the strictest rules of decency, nor which can offend even the chastest eye in the perusal. On the contrary, I declare, that to recommend goodness and innocence hath XV been my sincere endeavour in this history.
Page 372 - However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.
Page 322 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Page 291 - FSA and of many of his learned friends, containing an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom from the beginning of the present Century to the end of the year 1777.
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