The Biographical Magazine: Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters, 2. köideE. Wilson., 1820 |
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... productions never appear to have been great favorites with the public . The only sparks of animation they exhibit , are when they touch on political topics . 1 ARMSTRONG . JOHN ARMSTRONG , poet and physician ,. 23 Holl soulp .
... productions never appear to have been great favorites with the public . The only sparks of animation they exhibit , are when they touch on political topics . 1 ARMSTRONG . JOHN ARMSTRONG , poet and physician ,. 23 Holl soulp .
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Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters. 1 ARMSTRONG . JOHN ARMSTRONG , poet and physician , was.
Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters. 1 ARMSTRONG . JOHN ARMSTRONG , poet and physician , was.
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... poet and physician , was born about 1709 , at Castleton , in Rox- burghshire , Scotland , where his father was minister . He was designed for the medical profession , and studied for that purpose in the university of Edinburgh , where ...
... poet and physician , was born about 1709 , at Castleton , in Rox- burghshire , Scotland , where his father was minister . He was designed for the medical profession , and studied for that purpose in the university of Edinburgh , where ...
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... poetic genius prevailing , he also quitted his legal studies ; and to the plays , written jointly by him and Fletcher , fifty - three in number , it is supposed that he stood indebted for his subsistence during a life probably spent in ...
... poetic genius prevailing , he also quitted his legal studies ; and to the plays , written jointly by him and Fletcher , fifty - three in number , it is supposed that he stood indebted for his subsistence during a life probably spent in ...
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... poet of good sense , and perhaps no writer has ever composed so much , with so little to be erased or altered . Taste and judgement scarcely ever desert him : his versification is correct , his language choice and pure , his sentiments ...
... poet of good sense , and perhaps no writer has ever composed so much , with so little to be erased or altered . Taste and judgement scarcely ever desert him : his versification is correct , his language choice and pure , his sentiments ...
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Page 16 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 20 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
Page 16 - ... that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Page 20 - Lord Byron's regiment, then advancing upon the enemy, who had lined the hedges on both sides with musketeers ; from whence he was shot with a musket in the lower part of the belly, and in the instant falling from his horse, his body was not found till the next morning ; till when, there was some...
Page 19 - Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Page 13 - By his natural temper he was quick of resentment ; but by his established and habitual practice he was gentle, modest, and inoffensive. His tenderness appeared in his attention to children, and to the poor. To the poor, while he lived in the family of his friend* h,e allowed the third part of his annual revenue...
Page 11 - No distractions of mind, no foreboding terrors of conscience agitated this attractive scene. His chamber was " privileged beyond the common walks of virtuous life — quite in the verge of heaven" — and he expired like a wave scarcely curling to the evening zephyr of an unclouded summer sky, and gently rippling to the shore. It was a
Page 15 - ... and agitated him, and when he returned to college, he was so completely ill, that no power of medicine could save him. His mind was worn out, and it was the opinion of his medical attendants, that if he had recovered, his intellect would have been affected.
Page 7 - These busy scenes were blended with, and terminated by meditation and philosophic inquiries. Strip each period of its excesses and errors, and it will not be easy to trace out, or dispose the life of a man of quality into a succession of employments which would better become him. Valour and military activity in youth, business of state in the middle age, contemplation and labour for the information of posterity in the calmer scenes of closing life.