Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... sir Robert Cotton ; to which a head of sir Walter was at first improperly prefixed . " The Dutiful Advice of a Loving Son to his aged Father ; printed in Ralegh's Remains , as written by him , but more probably a libel upon him by one ...
... sir Robert Cotton ; to which a head of sir Walter was at first improperly prefixed . " The Dutiful Advice of a Loving Son to his aged Father ; printed in Ralegh's Remains , as written by him , but more probably a libel upon him by one ...
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... sir Robert Cotton , are reposited in the Cottonian library . 22 Arthur Agard is famous as having been one of the ... sir Robert Cotton , Selden , sir Hen- ry Spelman , Stow , Thynne , & c . Of what Antiquity Shires were in England ...
... sir Robert Cotton , are reposited in the Cottonian library . 22 Arthur Agard is famous as having been one of the ... sir Robert Cotton , Selden , sir Hen- ry Spelman , Stow , Thynne , & c . Of what Antiquity Shires were in England ...
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... sir Robert Cotton . The title complete is- " Remains of a Greater Work concerning Britain , the Inhabitants thereof , their Lan- guages , Names , Surnames , Impresses , Wise Speeches , Poesies , and Epitaphs ; " London , 1605 , 4to ...
... sir Robert Cotton . The title complete is- " Remains of a Greater Work concerning Britain , the Inhabitants thereof , their Lan- guages , Names , Surnames , Impresses , Wise Speeches , Poesies , and Epitaphs ; " London , 1605 , 4to ...
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... Sir Robert Cotton , from whose li- brary he derived great advantage , was his in- timate friend , and his companion both in his studies and in his travels . He corre- sponded also with Dr. James , first keeper of the Bodleian Library ; and ...
... Sir Robert Cotton , from whose li- brary he derived great advantage , was his in- timate friend , and his companion both in his studies and in his travels . He corre- sponded also with Dr. James , first keeper of the Bodleian Library ; and ...
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... sir Robert Cotton ; but by the contrivance of Dr. John Williams , lord keeper of England , bishop of Lincoln , and dean of Westminster , who took advantage of an equivocal expression in the will , the printed part was afterwards re ...
... sir Robert Cotton ; but by the contrivance of Dr. John Williams , lord keeper of England , bishop of Lincoln , and dean of Westminster , who took advantage of an equivocal expression in the will , the printed part was afterwards re ...
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Página 156 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 332 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 484 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 292 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Página 422 - For the mind and memory are more sharply exercised in comprehending another man's things than our own; and such as accustom themselves and are familiar with the best authors shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an authority above their own.
Página 230 - Neither, by my consent, shalt thou train them up in wars; for he that sets up his rest to live by that profession, can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian...
Página 422 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.
Página 463 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
Página 461 - M libraries as ever he had) a scholar, and would be therefore loth, either by living as a drone, to be an unprofitable or unworthy member of so learned and noble a society, or to write that which should be any way dishonourable to such a royal and ample foundation.
Página 420 - For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.