The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 105
er, the fame of Goldsmithis immortal. His Vicar of Wakefield, under the formof a novel presents an excellent treatise of morality,and developes, in a manner the most admirable, thisbeautiful thought: Craignez heureux, esperez infortu-n6zJ>y His poems, the style of which is a model ofgrace,… … P-JiluhetiI.. HAMPDEN. John Hampden, an English patriot, was descendedfrom an ancient family in Buckinghamshire, and bornat London, in 1594. In 1626 he was elected a memberof parliament, and became one of the leaders of thepopular party. Like Cromwell, he was one of thosezealous puritans who…
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