Descriptive Catalogue of the Series of Works Known as the Library of Old Authors

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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1899 - 67 pages
 

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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.

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