English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 7

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Cassell, limited, 1891
 

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Página 35 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Página 222 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Página 73 - Pucell: containing the Knowledge of the Seven Sciences and the Course of Man's Life in this World.
Página 221 - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
Página 269 - Families of Lancaster and York being long in continual dissension for the crown of this noble realm, with all the acts done in both the times of the Princes, both of the one lineage and of the other, beginning at the time of King Henry the Fourth, the first author of this division, and so successively proceeding to the reign of the high and prudent prince King Henry the Eighth, the indubitate flower and very heir of both the said lineages.
Página 287 - A public weal is a body living, compact or made of sundry estates and degrees of men, which is disposed by the order of equity and governed by the rule and moderation of reason.
Página 210 - WAR or battle as a thing very beastly, and yet to no kind of beasts in so much use as it is to man, they do detest and abhor ; and contrary to the custom almost of all other nations, they count nothing so much against glory, as glory gotten in war.
Página 131 - I hard, under ane holyn hevinlie grein hewit, Ane hie speiche, at my hand, with hautand wourdis; With that in haist to the hege so hard I inthrang That I was heildit with hawthorne...
Página 208 - Therefore in this point, not you only, but also the most part of the world, be like evil schoolmasters, which be readier to beat, than to teach their scholars. For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, whereas much rather provision should have been made, that there were some means, whereby they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this extreme necessity, first to steal, and then to die.
Página 186 - Why come ye not to Court ? To which court ? To the King's Court, or to Hampton Court? Nay, to the King's Court : the King's Court should have the excellence. But Hampton Court hath the pre-eminence, and Yorkes Place with my lordes grace, to whose magnificence is all the confluence, suits, and supplications, embassades of all nations.

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