A catalogue, bibliographical and critical, of early English literature, forming a portion of the library at Bridgewater house, the property of lord F. Egerton, Volume 79 |
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... conclude that they were inserted in those languages , but they are only translated and miscellaneously printed . The work before us appears to be the earliest assemblage professedly of Scotch Proverbs , with the excep- tion , perhaps ...
... conclude that they were inserted in those languages , but they are only translated and miscellaneously printed . The work before us appears to be the earliest assemblage professedly of Scotch Proverbs , with the excep- tion , perhaps ...
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... conclude that Wynkyn de Worde kept Caxton's manuscript by him some years before he put it to press . What follows is a specimen of one of the many wood cuts : it may have come into the hands of Copland with others he is known to have ...
... conclude that Wynkyn de Worde kept Caxton's manuscript by him some years before he put it to press . What follows is a specimen of one of the many wood cuts : it may have come into the hands of Copland with others he is known to have ...
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... conclude my presenting to yor good L. of this wysh , wch if it perish , it is but a losse of that which is not . And thus crauing pardon , that I haue taken so much tyme from yor L. I allwaies remayn , gor App Very Jamsh Amy beyond d ...
... conclude my presenting to yor good L. of this wysh , wch if it perish , it is but a losse of that which is not . And thus crauing pardon , that I haue taken so much tyme from yor L. I allwaies remayn , gor App Very Jamsh Amy beyond d ...
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... concluding with " A comparison of the Life of Man , " in seven lines . On the last page is the following remarkable " Remem- brance of some English Poets , " viz . , Spenser , Daniel , Drayton , and Shake- speare . " Live Spenser ever ...
... concluding with " A comparison of the Life of Man , " in seven lines . On the last page is the following remarkable " Remem- brance of some English Poets , " viz . , Spenser , Daniel , Drayton , and Shake- speare . " Live Spenser ever ...
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... concluding " that this present treatyse myght as well be reputed for trouth as some of those , " he finished his undertaking , " not presumynge , ( he adds ) , that I haue reduced it in to fresshe , ornate , polysshed englysshe , for I ...
... concluding " that this present treatyse myght as well be reputed for trouth as some of those , " he finished his undertaking , " not presumynge , ( he adds ) , that I haue reduced it in to fresshe , ornate , polysshed englysshe , for I ...
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Page 146 - His Noble Numbers or his pious Pieces, wherein (amongst other things) he sings the Birth of his Christ, and sighes for his Saviours suffering on the Crosse &c.
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