A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland;: With Lists of Their Works:John Scott, 1806 - English literature |
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... verses and flattering rhymes , and drew over singers and jesters from France , to 2 [ Cinthio Giraldi supposed that the art of the troubadours , commonly called the gay science , was first communicated from France to the Italians , and ...
... verses and flattering rhymes , and drew over singers and jesters from France , to 2 [ Cinthio Giraldi supposed that the art of the troubadours , commonly called the gay science , was first communicated from France to the Italians , and ...
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... J. R. Sinner , " from a manuscript of the thirteenth century , in which this verse begins- " Or sai je bien " —and this reading , says Mr. Ellis , Quant il me laissent por or ni por argent ! B 4 RICHARD THE FIRST . 7.
... J. R. Sinner , " from a manuscript of the thirteenth century , in which this verse begins- " Or sai je bien " —and this reading , says Mr. Ellis , Quant il me laissent por or ni por argent ! B 4 RICHARD THE FIRST . 7.
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... verses too . If they are genuine , it is extraordi- nary that so great a curiosity should never have been published . However , while there was this authority , he was not to be omitted . [ What lord Orford considered as very dubitable ...
... verses too . If they are genuine , it is extraordi- nary that so great a curiosity should never have been published . However , while there was this authority , he was not to be omitted . [ What lord Orford considered as very dubitable ...
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... verses in commend- ation of her . " Lord Orford seems disposed to think that these verses might have been a collegiate exercise5 . Se how Richard , of Albyoun the kyng , Whiche in his tyme riche and glorious was , Sacred with abyte ...
... verses in commend- ation of her . " Lord Orford seems disposed to think that these verses might have been a collegiate exercise5 . Se how Richard , of Albyoun the kyng , Whiche in his tyme riche and glorious was , Sacred with abyte ...
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... verse , says sir John , I did mean to presente your highnesse with , is as now doth followe , and well suteth the temper and condition of him who made it : Kingdomes are but cares , State ys devoid of staie , Ryches are redy snares ...
... verse , says sir John , I did mean to presente your highnesse with , is as now doth followe , and well suteth the temper and condition of him who made it : Kingdomes are but cares , State ys devoid of staie , Ryches are redy snares ...
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Page 250 - Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute, this is the last 'Labour, that thou and I shall waste ; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past ; My lute, be still, for I have done.
Page 84 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 138 - To conclude, he was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father, and the best Christian, that the age in which he lived produced.
Page x - Scaliger compares to the labours of the anvil and the mine ; that what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present ; that sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive...
Page 120 - Mr. George Herbert being Prselector in the Rhetorique School in Cambridge anno 1618, pass'd by those fluent Orators that Domineered in the Pulpits of Athens and Rome, and insisted to Read upon an Oration of King James, which he analysed...
Page 136 - Some historians have rashly questioned the good faith of this prince: But, for this reproach, the most malignant scrutiny of his conduct, which, in every circumstance is now thoroughly known, affords not any reasonable foundation.
Page 193 - Stage-poets have themselves been very bold with, and others very merry at, the memory of Sir John Oldcastle ; whom they have fancied a boon companion, a jovial...
Page 250 - As to be heard where ear is none, As lead to grave in marble stone, My song may pierce her heart as soon; Should we then sigh or sing or moan?
Page 94 - The queen was brought by water to Whitehall, At every stroke the oars did tears let fall. More clung about the barge ; fish under water Wept out their eyes of pearl, and swam blind after.
Page 96 - Yea I believe, that beside her perfect readiness in Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish, she readeth here now at Windsor more Greek every day than some prebendary of this church doth read Latin in a whole week.