Descriptive Catalogue of the Series of Works Known as the Library of Old AuthorsJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1899 - 67 pages |
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ADAM BEL Amadis of Gaul Appius Aubrey Aubrey's Miscellanies Batrachomyomachia Ben Jonson Bodleian Britannia Camden Camden's Remains Carew Charles Church CLYM copy Countess Crashaw Creed of Piers death Dramatic Drummond Duke Early Popular Poetry Eastward Hoe English Free Library Glossary Hazlitt's Poe Hazlitt's Poetry Hearne Hero and Leander Herrick Hesiod Hesperides History Homer Hydriotaphia Hymns Increase Mather Introduction and Notes Iohn John Webster Jonson King Langland Latin Letters LIBRARY OF OLD Lilly Lilly's litt's Poetry Lord Lovelace Lucasta Maid's Metamorphosis Marston Mather MERY Mort d'Arthure Odyssey OLD AUTHORS Piers Ploughman play poems poet Poetry of England Poetry of Scotland Poly-Olbion Pope Portrait praises printed published Queen reprinted Robert Robert Herrick Roger Ascham romance Sackville Sandys Sandys's Scots Sir John Sir Thomas Songs sonnets Spence Suckling title-page Toxophilus translated by Chapman try of England verses Vision volume Webster William Wither writes written Wyff ΙΟ
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Page 39 - The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerse things Printed, that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment.
Page 24 - Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but...
Page 14 - A | Chorographicall | Description Of All | the Tracts, Rivers, | Mountains, Forests, | and other Parts of this Renowned | Isle of Great Britain, | With intermixture of the most Remarkeable | Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, | and Commodities, of the same.
Page 13 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any language truly translated, with a "Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev.
Page 21 - But who is he, in closet close y-pent, Of sober face, with learned dust besprent?' Right well mine eyes arede the myster wight, On parchment scraps y-fed, and Wormius hight. To future ages may thy dulness last, As thou preserv'st the dulness of the past!
Page 37 - A Letter sent by sir John Suckling from France, deploring his sad estate and flight : with a discoverie of the plot and conspiracie, intended by him and his adherents against England.
Page 34 - IF all Actions of a Man's Life, his Marriage does least concern other people, yet of all Actions of our Life 'tis most meddled with by other People.
Page 30 - IN this volume there are several feigned stories of natural descriptions, as comical, tragical, and tragi-comical, poetical, romancical, philosophical, and historical, both in prose and verse, some all verse, some all prose, some mixt, partly prose and partly verse.
Page 12 - Odysses ; which (for their first lights borne before all learning) were worthily called the Sun and Moon of the Earth ; (finding no compensation), he writ, in contempt of men, this ridiculous poem of Vermin, giving them nobility of birth, valorous elocution not inferior to his heroes.
Page 15 - Of all these forces raised against the king, Tis my strange hap not one whole man to bring, From divers parishes, yet divers men, But all in halfs and quarters ; great king, then, In halfs and quarters if they come 'gainst thee, In halfs and quarters send them back to me.