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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... John Cheke Wilson Grafton Roger Ascham For Holinshed Sir Philip Sidney Spencer Sir Walter Ralegh Lilly Cecil ( Lord Burleigh ) Stow Knolles Agard Camden Hooker Bacon ( Lord Verulam ) Speed Daniel Sir Henry Spelman Andrews ( Bishop of ...
... John Cheke Wilson Grafton Roger Ascham For Holinshed Sir Philip Sidney Spencer Sir Walter Ralegh Lilly Cecil ( Lord Burleigh ) Stow Knolles Agard Camden Hooker Bacon ( Lord Verulam ) Speed Daniel Sir Henry Spelman Andrews ( Bishop of ...
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... John Stow , the historian of London , & c . originating probably in a spirit of rivalry for Grafton , in the dedication of his editions of 1570 and 1572 , affects to speak with contempt of the labours of his brother historian , whose ...
... John Stow , the historian of London , & c . originating probably in a spirit of rivalry for Grafton , in the dedication of his editions of 1570 and 1572 , affects to speak with contempt of the labours of his brother historian , whose ...
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... John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and uncourteous terms , descanting and defining my name , & c . — and now ...
... John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and uncourteous terms , descanting and defining my name , & c . — and now ...
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... John Harding , one of his authors ( who surely is worthy of great praise , and I wish he had follow- ed in his book ... Stow of Hall's Chro- nicle but this I say , I have not made Hall's Chronicle my Chronicle , neither have I used his ...
... John Harding , one of his authors ( who surely is worthy of great praise , and I wish he had follow- ed in his book ... Stow of Hall's Chro- nicle but this I say , I have not made Hall's Chronicle my Chronicle , neither have I used his ...
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... 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 that beareth the name of John Harding ...
... 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 that beareth the name of John Harding ...
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312. oldal - ... 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.
151. oldal - ... 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.
311. oldal - 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...
399. oldal - 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.
223. oldal - 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...
274. oldal - 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.
222. oldal - Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth ; for it will cause contempt in others and loathing in thee.
394. oldal - 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.
460. oldal - ... 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.
147. oldal - 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...