A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland: With Lists of Their Works, Volume 1J. Scott, 1806 - English literature |
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... Dover , a book composed from laws or decrees elucidated and enacted by that king , vide p . 95 ; nor is it sufficient that bishop Bale says he wrote epistles to Anselm . VOL . I. B Lion ! It is asserted , that towards the end.
... Dover , a book composed from laws or decrees elucidated and enacted by that king , vide p . 95 ; nor is it sufficient that bishop Bale says he wrote epistles to Anselm . VOL . I. B Lion ! It is asserted , that towards the end.
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... wrote and sent to Rome during the pro- ceedings on his first divorce , in which he had set down the reasons for dissolving his marriage , and the scruples of his conscience ; but I can- not find that it exists , or was ever printed 4 ...
... wrote and sent to Rome during the pro- ceedings on his first divorce , in which he had set down the reasons for dissolving his marriage , and the scruples of his conscience ; but I can- not find that it exists , or was ever printed 4 ...
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... wrote to her in that language . Hist . of Reform . vol . ii . p . 2. But Strype printed an epistle in Latin , from her to the princess Mary . Ballard points out many of her English letters . ] Vide Ballard's Memoirs of celebrated Ladies ...
... wrote to her in that language . Hist . of Reform . vol . ii . p . 2. But Strype printed an epistle in Latin , from her to the princess Mary . Ballard points out many of her English letters . ] Vide Ballard's Memoirs of celebrated Ladies ...
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... wrote , " Queen Catherine Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner bewailing the Ignorance of her blind Life " . " This was a contrite meditation on the years she had passed in popery , in fasts and pilgrim- ages ; and being found among her ...
... wrote , " Queen Catherine Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner bewailing the Ignorance of her blind Life " . " This was a contrite meditation on the years she had passed in popery , in fasts and pilgrim- ages ; and being found among her ...
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... wrote an affectionate letter to Henry , in which she termed him her " most dear lord , king , and husband , ” and expressed a desire to see him above all things . See ld . Herbert's Hen . VIII . • Obligingly transcribed by the rev . Mr ...
... wrote an affectionate letter to Henry , in which she termed him her " most dear lord , king , and husband , ” and expressed a desire to see him above all things . See ld . Herbert's Hen . VIII . • Obligingly transcribed by the rev . Mr ...
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Page 78 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 134 - To conclude, he was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father, and the best Christian, that the age in which he lived produced.
Page 89 - The Wonderfull yeare, 1603. Wherein is shewed the picture of London, lying sicke of the Plague. At the ende of all (like a mery Epilogue to a dull Play) certaine Tales are cut out in sundry fashions, of purpose to shorten the Hues of long winters nights, that lye watching in the darke for us.
Page 114 - Mr. George Herbert being Prselector in the Rhetorique School in Cambridge anno 1618, pass'd by those fluent Orators that Domineered in the Pulpits of Athens and Rome, and insisted to Read upon an Oration of King James, which he analysed...
Page 134 - Some historians have rashly questioned the good faith of this prince: But, for this reproach, the most malignant scrutiny of his conduct, which, in every circumstance is now thoroughly known, affords not any reasonable foundation.
Page 188 - Stage-poets have themselves been very bold with, and others very merry at, the memory of Sir John Oldcastle ; whom they have fancied a boon companion, a jovial...
Page 153 - But habitudes of those that live ; Who, lighting him, did greater lights receive; He drain'd from all, and all they knew. His apprehension quick, his judgment true : That the most learn'd with shame confess, His knowledge more, his reading only less.
Page 112 - Sathan are most certainly practised, and that the instruments thereof merits most severely to be punished : against the damnable opinions of two principally in our age, whereof the one called Scot, an Englishman, is not ashamed in public print to deny that there can be such a thing as witchcraft ; and so maintains the old error of the Sadducees in denying of spirits.
Page 244 - Now cease, my lute, this is the last 'Labour, that thou and I shall waste ; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past ; My lute, be still, for I have done.
Page 244 - As to be heard where ear is none, As lead to grave in marble stone, My song may pierce her heart as soon; Should we then sigh or sing or moan?