 | English literature - 1753 - 750 pages
...their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, reprefenting him on horfeback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. The gentleman iere mentioned 'ivas James Crichton of Clunie, in Perthßire, fan of Robert Crichton... | |
 | 1785 - 772 pages
...their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy' were adorned with pifturcs, reprefentmg him on horfcback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. № LXXXII. 2I4 THE ADVENTURER. N» LXXXII. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1753. «CSC tCIO qjUD SIT AMOR. Vl»C.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...their encomiums; and the * palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures repre' fenting him on horfeback, with a lance in one hand ' and a book in the other.' The above account is fo defective in the evidences of hiftorical verity, that it has been by fome fufpected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...chambers or galleries of the moft of the great men of ' that nation, reprefenting him on horfeback, with a ' lance in one hand, and a book in the other : and X a * moft c moft of the young ladies likewife, that were any ' thing handlbme, in a memorial... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 632 pages
...and the 3.1 ' palaces ' palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures repre* fenting him on horfeback, with a lance in one hand ' and a book in the other.' The above account is fo defective in the evidences of hiftorical verity, that it has been by fome fnfpected... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...encomiums ; and the ' palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures reprr• fencing him on horfeback, with a lance in one hand ' and a book in the other.' The above account is fo defective in the evidences of hiftorical variety, that it has been by fome... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...feen in moil of the bed-chambers and galleries of the Italian nobility, reprefenting him on horfeback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. On the whole it is evident that he was a youth of mch lively parts as excited great prefent admiration,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book ia the other. . T. N° 82. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1753. Nunc icio quid tit AMOK. VIRG. Now know I what... | |
 | William Cook - 1805 - 240 pages
...cotemporary witswere profuse of their encomiums ; and the L palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures ^k representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other." Such is the account which Dr. Hawkesworth gives of this extraordinary man ; who was killed, as above... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 636 pages
...works. is picture was to be seen in most of the bed-chambers and galleries of the Italian nobility, representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. The same author tells us, that Crichton gained the esteem of kings and princes by his magnanimity and... | |
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Mantua testified their esteem by a public mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. 
