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... earliest assemblage professedly of Scotch Proverbs , with the excep- tion , perhaps , of that of R. Fergusson , said to have been first printed in 1598 : the " Adagia in Latine and English , " printed at Aberdeen in 1622 , 8vo . is ...
... earliest assemblage professedly of Scotch Proverbs , with the excep- tion , perhaps , of that of R. Fergusson , said to have been first printed in 1598 : the " Adagia in Latine and English , " printed at Aberdeen in 1622 , 8vo . is ...
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... earliest collection of proverbs in English was that made by John Hey- wood , the dramatist , first printed in 1547 , 4to . and many times afterwards . There are two distinct works , called " The Crossing of Proverbs , " one by B. N. ...
... earliest collection of proverbs in English was that made by John Hey- wood , the dramatist , first printed in 1547 , 4to . and many times afterwards . There are two distinct works , called " The Crossing of Proverbs , " one by B. N. ...
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... earliest , or whether it had been previously printed by John Doesborowe at Antwerp ; for , on p . 34 , of Vol . iii . of his " Typographical Antiquities , " he speaks of Doesborowe's edition as " the second , " and inserts , in a note ...
... earliest , or whether it had been previously printed by John Doesborowe at Antwerp ; for , on p . 34 , of Vol . iii . of his " Typographical Antiquities , " he speaks of Doesborowe's edition as " the second , " and inserts , in a note ...
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... earliest notice we have of him is in 1514 , when he probably was one of the children of the Chapel Royal , of whom he afterwards seems to have become master . ( Hist . of Engl . Dram . Poetr . and the Stage , i , 70 ) . In the King's ...
... earliest notice we have of him is in 1514 , when he probably was one of the children of the Chapel Royal , of whom he afterwards seems to have become master . ( Hist . of Engl . Dram . Poetr . and the Stage , i , 70 ) . In the King's ...
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... earliest production , dedicating it in a Latin in- scription and in an English epistle to King James , and subscribing it Georgius Bucus , Eq . Here he states that he had begun the poem " long since , " but " could not finish it ...
... earliest production , dedicating it in a Latin in- scription and in an English epistle to King James , and subscribing it Georgius Bucus , Eq . Here he states that he had begun the poem " long since , " but " could not finish it ...
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