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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Pagina 40
... It is inserted in Holinshed's Chronicle , under the year 1549 , and was reprinted in 1576. In 1641 , it was printed a third time , by Dr. Gerard Langbaine , of Queen's College , Oxford , with a brief life of the author prefix- 40 CHEKE .
... It is inserted in Holinshed's Chronicle , under the year 1549 , and was reprinted in 1576. In 1641 , it was printed a third time , by Dr. Gerard Langbaine , of Queen's College , Oxford , with a brief life of the author prefix- 40 CHEKE .
Pagina 70
... Chronicle , his own ; and with falsifying Harding's Chronicle , in several in- stances , when he printed it in 1543. As we are naturally interested in the veracity of our early Chroniclers , it is proper that we should hear what Grafton ...
... Chronicle , his own ; and with falsifying Harding's Chronicle , in several in- stances , when he printed it in 1543. As we are naturally interested in the veracity of our early Chroniclers , it is proper that we should hear what Grafton ...
Pagina 71
... Chronicles , and not only amended such things as I found amiss therein , but also have added thereunto many and ... Chronicle , but not without mangling , and ( as he saith ) without any ingenuous and plain declaration thereof . The ...
... Chronicles , and not only amended such things as I found amiss therein , but also have added thereunto many and ... Chronicle , but not without mangling , and ( as he saith ) without any ingenuous and plain declaration thereof . The ...
Pagina 72
... Chronicle of Harding's which he hath , doth much differ from the Chronicle , which under the said Harding's name was printed by me , as though I had falsified Harding's Chronicle . For answer to the first , I have not made Hall's Chronicle ...
... Chronicle of Harding's which he hath , doth much differ from the Chronicle , which under the said Harding's name was printed by me , as though I had falsified Harding's Chronicle . For answer to the first , I have not made Hall's Chronicle ...
Pagina 73
... Chronicle is mine , nor mine his . Now , as touching John Harding's Chronicle that Stow hath , which he saith doth much differ from that which was imprinted under his name by me , grant it may well be so ; for I have , at this time , a ...
... Chronicle is mine , nor mine his . Now , as touching John Harding's Chronicle that Stow hath , which he saith doth much differ from that which was imprinted under his name by me , grant it may well be so ; for I have , at this time , a ...
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Pagina 312 - ... 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.
Pagina 151 - ... 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.
Pagina 311 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Pagina 399 - Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech.
Pagina 223 - 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...
Pagina 274 - 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.
Pagina 222 - Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth ; for it will cause contempt in others and loathing in thee.
Pagina 394 - 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.
Pagina 460 - ... quietness sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat ; if every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree ; one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before ; so there would be a confusion. But that charge being committed to one, he, according to his discretion, pleases all ; if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good.
Pagina 147 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...