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id: 16469
title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II.
author: Cibber, Theophilus
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  Love-sick King, an English Tragical History, with the Life and Death [f]or the Great Royal Ball, acted in Paris six times by the King in This great poet, and worthy man, died at a house called the of his works: Dr. Sprat mentions, as very excellent in their kind, Mr. Cowley''s Letters to his private friends, none of which were published. This great man died at his house in little Lincoln''s-Inn-Fields, April greatest part of them were published in the author''s life-time in 4to. The eldest son of Dr. John King lord bishop of London, whom Winstanley perhaps he has not for some time heard of, written by this great man, Much about this time he wrote (says the author of his Life) ''the the translation of the first act to our author; and observes, that Sir But let us now enter upon the life of the son of this great man; who,


id: 6865
title: Four Years
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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  propaganda, ''Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing written.'' ''But,'' said the dull man, ''would you not have given us three times a week,'' said Wilde, ''for an hour a day but I have in the house, for Morris was an old man content at last to gather like imagining in every great change, believing that the first Ruskin had said to some friend of my father''s--''As I go to my work great deal--too much, I imagine, for so young a man, or may be for father was a great mathematician--or ''A woman once said to me, talking some time when Mrs. Ellis came into the room and said: thought ''like a man of letters,'' now exasperated at their A great passionate nature, a sort of female Dr. Johnson, impressive, I think, to every man or woman who had like a dumb-bell.'' I said, for I knew that her imagination


id: 10598
title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I.
author: Cibber, Theophilus
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  expressions of the King''s authority, the duke of Suffolk and earl Sir Thomas, in his learning and other excellent qualities.'' The author In our author''s history of the reign of Queen Mary, tho'' he shews Galathea, a Comedy, played before the Queen at Greenwich on New year''s The Life and Death of King John, an historical play. The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, the favourite of King Elizabeth and King James''s reign; he was called by the poets in his He wrote plays jointly with Mr. Beaumont, and Wood says he assisted Ben Johnson in a Comedy called 6. Travels of Three English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, and Mr. Robert Shirley, a History, played by her Majesty''s Servants, printed From this time till the year 1594, we find Sir Walter by the author was first called The Entertainment; as appears from Sir


id: 10459
title: The Celtic Twilight
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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  little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin he said, in dark clothes like people of our own time, who stood about a to her father, "Go and ask him to come in and dine." The old man went old tax-gatherer got up to go, and my friend said, "I hope we will have man insisted that he had said it for Byrne''s good; and went on to tell us, it is said, day and night, like bats upon an old tree; and that we My old Mayo woman told me one day that something very bad had come rocking her, when a woman of the Sidhe (the faeries) came in, and said said, ''but come to the house with us.'' We went home with them, and sat friend asked, "How wee was she?" And the old woman said, "Well now, she When he came in the old woman said, "Your brother


id: 12090
title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V.
author: Cibber, Theophilus
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  advice.'' Our author''s great and noble friend the lord Hallifax was dead, written by our author; and in the same year he published A Letter to the Thus we have endeavoured to exhibit an Idea of the writings of Mr. Tickell, a man of a very elegant genius: As there appears no great great-grandson, Dean Swift, Esq; He died in the year 1658, leaving five said, that upon its first publication, a gentleman acquainted with Mr. Pope, took occasion to ask that poet, if he was not the author of it, to age; and left behind him the character of a worthy man, a great poet, lines he spoke; worthy the great poet and good man, whose merits they The year following that in which Mr. Pope wrote his poem on Silence, he into that great poet''s writings, is the author of the following dramatic


id: 12014
title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV.
author: Cibber, Theophilus
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  so great a man as Prior; a singular instance of good nature. married before the age of fifteen, to a nephew of Sir Stephen Fox. This gentleman living with her but a year, she afterwards married Mr. Carrol, an officer in the army, and survived him likewise in the space Major Pack obliged the world with some Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Wycherley, which are prefixed to Theobald''s edition of that author. Our author wrote a Satire called Doris, celebrated by Sir Richard The same year our author published a Letter from the earl of Marr to In the mean time, the young Corinna, a poetical name given her by Mr. Dryden, continued to improve her mind by reading the politest authors: a young man of such great personal accomplishments, both natural and Mr. Smith was, upon the whole, a good natured man, a great


id: 10622
title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III.
author: Cibber, Theophilus
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  Tho'' Sir John Denham mentions but six, our author wrote nine Plays in 9. The False Count, or a New Way to play an old Game, a Comedy; acted at Ellen Gwyn, King Charles IId''s mistress, and is esteemed one of Mrs. Behn''s best plays. poet has drawn out some sketch of himself, and from the authority of Mr. Bowman, who played Sir Fopling, or some other part in this comedy, it Sir William has also a little poem extant, which was set to music by Mr. Henry Lawes, a man in the highest reputation of any of his profession in year published his Essay on Dramatic Poetry, addressed to Charles earl In 1679 came out an Essay on Satire, said to be written jointly by Mr. Dryden and the earl of Mulgrave; this piece, which was handed about in Sir Charles, considered as an author, has great delicacy in his turns,


id: 33505
title: The Trembling of the Veil
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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  "Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go on. said the dull man, "would you not have given us time to read it?" "Oh no," "My God," said Henley, "I went five times a week for five hours a day and of every man he liked; he made me tell him long Irish stories and I was a little disappointed in the house, for Morris was an old man twenty years, a man of whom I have heard it said "He is always afraid that years have passed and I have seen no forcible young man of letters brave eyes; he was like some man, who serves a woman all his life without asking "or doing the world''s work"; and for certain years young Irish women were yes, the people seem to like _Arms and the Man_," said one of Mr Shaw''s


id: 33348
title: Reveries over Childhood and Youth
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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  great-uncle Mat Yeats and his big family of boys and girls; but I think went to a little two-storeyed house in a poor street where an old One day my father told me that a painter had said I was very opposite lived a school-master called O''Neill, and when a little boy told found a small, green-covered book given to my father by a Dublin man of or walking between school and home four times a day, for I came home in boys who passed his window every day and been told the names of the two My father had read me the story of the little boy murdered When I was a little boy, an old woman who had come to I said, "I would like to live here always, and perhaps some day I will." I remember, with a young man who was, I had been told, a school-master.


