oldys造句

• He presented the society with valuable books, and a portrait of William Oldys.
• Three years later Harley died, and from that time Oldys worked for the booksellers.
• She achieved this by contacting the family of artists and due to the goodwill of William Oldys.
• Oldys was the initial editor of the " Biographia Britannica ", overseeing its first appearance in 1747.
• In 1731 Oldys sold his collections to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, who appointed him his literary secretary in 1738.
• In imitation of the plan adopted by William Oldys, he fitted up a room with shelves and a hundred receptacles into which he dropped cuttings on different subjects.
• William Oldys wrote that he was invited to participate in the edition, but turned down the offer, because papers dealing with the young Princess Elizabeth were being censored.
• William Oldys said of him that he " would not stoop to fawn, " and some of his verses seem to show that he disliked the pressures of life at court.
• Noted antiquarian William Oldys, appointed Norroy King of Arms in 1756, was described as being " rarely sober in the afternoon, never after supper ", and " much addicted to low company ".
• It seems likely that the link between the supposed motto and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed as his source a private manuscript to which he once had access.
• ""'The London Jilt; Or, the Politick Whore " "'is an Restoration rake, " the book, once attributed to Alexander Oldys, achieved popularity in both England and the American Colonies.
• A collection of poems called " Calanthe " ( with " Good Friday, being Meditations on that Day ", 1648 ) is signed " T . R . ", and William Oldys identified the author with Rawlins.
• The exact date of Fisher's death is uncertain; it is only known that he was alive in 1639, when he proceeded D . D . According to Oldys's manuscript notes to Gerard Langbaine he became blind, whether from old age or an accident is not known.
• Half a century later, when the form had been much cultivated, John Phillips ( 1631-1706 ) laid down the arbitrary rule that an anacreontic line " consists of seven syllables, without being tied to any certain law of quantity . " In the 18th century, the antiquary William Oldys ( 1696-1761 ) was the author of a little piece which is the perfect type of an anacreontic; this begins:
• There is no further record of performance until 1661, although it was likely to have remained in repertory to some degree until its anti-Puritan sentiments made it unwise to revive it . ( William Oldys reports a traditional view that the inscription on Jonson's tomb ( " O rare Ben Jonson " ) refers to the applause this play received, after the failure of " Catiline ", indicating some degree of popularity.
• Of the burial entry, Sidney Lee wrote : "'Gilbert Shakespeare adolescens,'who was buried at Stratford on February 3, 1611-12, was doubtless son of the poet's next brother, Gilbert; the latter, having nearly completed his forty-sixth year, could scarcely be described as " adolescens "; his death is not recorded, but according to Oldys he survived to a patriarchal age ."
• Oldys wrote in the mid-18th century, without certainty as to identity : " One of Shakespeare's younger brothers, who lived to a good old age, even some years, as I compute, after the restoration of King Charles the Second . . . The curiosity at this time of the most noted actors to learn something from him of his brother, etc ., they justly held him in the highest veneration . . ."