 | 1791 - 406 oldal
...folio with a fingle pen. Witji ont foie pen I writ this book, Made of я g' '--y дооГе 4ui^í A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. There were not wanting in Kjs time people, who aflerted, he was affined in thefe voluminous works by... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1798 - 346 oldal
...us, that he wrote.a great folio with one pen, and that he did npt wear it out. With one folc pfp 1 writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill; A pen it was mien it I took, A pen I leave-it ftill. St. Mary's Hall is at prefent ufed for corporation affemblies.... | |
 | 1800 - 586 oldal
...age. Ob. 1636, J£,t, 85. — He made the following epigram, upon writing a hr^f. folio with a flngle pen : With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of...it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. JOHN GREAVES. TH IS eminent mathematician and antiquary was mailer, in a high degree, of the natural... | |
 | 1800 - 580 oldal
...age. Ob. 1636, JEt. 85. — He made the following epigram, upon writing a large, folio with a fin »le pen: With one fole pen i writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill ; Л pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. JOHN GREATES. r I л HIS eminent matherftatician... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (of the Inner Temple.) - 1803 - 400 oldal
...1636, in his eighty-fifth year. He made the following epigram, upon writing a large folio with a fmglt pen:— With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of...A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it (till. WILLIAM ALABASTER. This Divine, who never rofe higher in the Church than Prebend of St. Paul's,... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (of the Inner Temple.) - 1803 - 424 oldal
...eighty-fifth year. He made the following epigram, upon writing a large folio with a fmgle pen :— Wlrh one fole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe...A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it /till. WIIIIAM ALABASTER. This Divine, who never rofe higher in the Church than Prebend of St. Paul's,... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (of the Inner Temple.) - 1803 - 400 oldal
...1636, in his eighty-fifth year. He made the following epigram, upon writing a large folio with a fingk pen: — With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill ; A pen h was when it I took, .And a pen I leave it ftill. WILLIAM ALABASTER. This Divine, who never rofe higher... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 794 oldal
...ing epigram upon writing a large folio with* gle pen : With one fole pen I wrote this boot, M.ic'e of a grey goofe quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And .1 pen I leave it ftill. (V.) HOLLAND, a to-.vn of Pruffia, in thef •of Obtrland, ftron^ly fortified,... | |
 | 1811 - 708 oldal
...Camdens' Britannia, both in folio. On completing the former work fce compofcd the following lines : " With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill : A pen it was, when I it took, A pen I leave it ftill." Vol. ip 190. A fimilar anecdote of Dr. Ferdinando Warner is fubjoined.... | |
 | 1811 - 708 oldal
...Britannia, both in folio. On completing the former work: be compofed the following lines: *' With onefole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill : A pen it was, when I it took, A pen I leave it ftill." Vol. ip 10,0. A fimilar anecdote of Dr. Ferdinande Warner is fubjoined.... | |
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... memory serves him, occupies between five and six hundred printed quarto pages, and must therefore have filled more pages of manuscript than the number mentioned in the text, has this quatrain at the end of the volume — With one good pen I wrote... 
