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... They are not arrived at that degree of mental cultivation and curiosity which fits them for these studies ! The Censura Literaria commenced with the year 1805 . For For the Bibliography of old English poetry , which had PREFACE . iii.
... They are not arrived at that degree of mental cultivation and curiosity which fits them for these studies ! The Censura Literaria commenced with the year 1805 . For For the Bibliography of old English poetry , which had PREFACE . iii.
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... English Literature , up to the close of the 17th century , which is at present a most important desideratum , shall be executed , the Censura Literaria , combined with the labours of Wood , Tanner , Ames , Herbert , Warton , and Dibdin ...
... English Literature , up to the close of the 17th century , which is at present a most important desideratum , shall be executed , the Censura Literaria , combined with the labours of Wood , Tanner , Ames , Herbert , Warton , and Dibdin ...
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... English by Francis Hawkins , nephew of Sir Thomas Hawkins , translator of Causoin's Holy Court . With the addition of 26 new precepts , written by a grave author , & c . The 9th impression , & c . London : printed for W. Lea , & c ...
... English by Francis Hawkins , nephew of Sir Thomas Hawkins , translator of Causoin's Holy Court . With the addition of 26 new precepts , written by a grave author , & c . The 9th impression , & c . London : printed for W. Lea , & c ...
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... especially as it will be difficult to convince his readers that he has improved upon it : for , in spite of Johnson , it must not be admitted , that that model is ill suited to the character of the English language . ill 4.
... especially as it will be difficult to convince his readers that he has improved upon it : for , in spite of Johnson , it must not be admitted , that that model is ill suited to the character of the English language . ill 4.
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Sir Egerton Brydges Joseph Haslewood. ill suited to the character of the English language . - A few poets , both old and modern , have shewn that they can manage it with skill and facility * . If the reader is tired with the length of ...
Sir Egerton Brydges Joseph Haslewood. ill suited to the character of the English language . - A few poets , both old and modern , have shewn that they can manage it with skill and facility * . If the reader is tired with the length of ...
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Page xiv - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 17 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made.
Page 16 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves.
Page 112 - Imprynted at London in Flete Strete at the Sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde".
Page 293 - I haue scene your compositiones so copious, so pregnant, so spirituall, that I doubt not but it is the gift of God in you.
Page 157 - In Amadis of Greece may be found the Zelmane of the Arcadia, the Masque of Cupid of the Faery Queen, and the Florizel of the Winter's Tale.
Page 6 - But to leaue with these, and declare the cause of my purpose. As I chaunced to reade the Mirour for Magistrates, a worke by all men wonderfully commended, and full of fitte instructions for preseruation of...
Page 245 - Collatine haue deerely bought, To high renowne, a lasting life, And found, that most in vaine haue sought, To haue a Faire, and Constant wife, Yet Tarquyne pluckt his glistering grape, And Shake-speare, paints poore Lucrece rape.
Page 207 - A Booke Of Christian Prayers, Collected out of the Ancient Writers, and best learned in our time, worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians, in these dangerous and troublesome daies, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercifull unto us.
Page 111 - London, and dilygently amended in dyuers places where as ony faute was, in Flete strete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde, in the yere of our lorde god M.CCCCC.xxviii the ix daye of Apryll.