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... been acted by the Children of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel, among them Nathaniel Field with whom Jonson read Horace and Martial, and whom he taught later how to make plays. Another of these precocious little actors was Salathiel Pavy, who died before he was thirteen, already famed for taking the parts of old men. Him Jonson immortalised in one of the sweetest of his epitaphs. An interesting sidelight is this on the character of this redoubtable and rugged satirist, that he should thus have befriended ...

— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson

... was greeted by the teachers and pupils who had known her before. She was a splendid-looking woman, then in her prime, and fully realized my idea of a queen. I doubt whether any royal personage in the Old World could have received her worshipers with more grace and dignity than did this far-famed daughter of the Republic. She was one of the remarkable women of that period, and did a great educational work for her sex. She gave free scholarships to a large number of promising girls, fitting them for teachers, with a proviso that, when the opportunity ...

— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... between Holborn and Lincoln's-inn Fields, formerly famed for being the resort of women ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... is your affianced wife, she is certainly in the power of Blackbeard, the far-famed pirate ...

— Blackbeard - Or, The Pirate of Roanoke. • B. Barker

... of woodland on every side of the factory, and this forest was famed both among animals and human beings because for many, many years the owners had been so careful of it that they had begrudged themselves even the trees needed for firewood. Nor had they had the heart to thin or train them. The trees had been allowed to grow as they pleased. Naturally ...

— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof

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