Catalogve of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Langland to Wither ...

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Grolier Club, 1893 - 240 pages
 

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Page 39 - Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome &c.
Page 70 - England, against the whole power of the French : vnder the Raigne of their Charles the sixt, Anno Dom. 1415. The Miseries of Queene Margarite, the infortunate Wife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt.
Page 82 - Michaell, and one of the Gentlemen in Ordinary of the French king, Henry the third his Chamber.
Page 119 - Apology for Actors," 1612), Heywood complains of the many errors in the printing of this volume, and that Jaggard refused to publish a list of Errata. He also complained that Jaggard inserted the epistles of Helen to Paris and Paris to Helen, which appear in this volume for the First Time, in his Third Edition of the "Passionate Pilgrim" of 1612, and thus convey the impression that he had "borrowed from Shakespeare.
Page 157 - A fruteful and pleasaunt worke of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Utopia : written in Latine by Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englyshe...
Page 154 - Hand, vntill this our latter Age. Newly Enlarged With A Last part, called A Winter nights Vision, being an addition of such Tragedies, especially famous, as are exempted in the former Historic, with a Poem annexed, called Englands Eliza.
Page 181 - The Rape of Lucrece, Committed by Tarquin the Sixt; and the remarkable judgments that befel him for it. By the incomparable Master of our English Poetry, Will. Shakespeare Gent. Whereunto is annexed, The Banishment of Tarquin: Or, the Reward of Lust. By J. Quarles.
Page 56 - Nosce teipsum. This Oracle expounded in two Elegies. 1. Of Humane knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man, and the immortalitie thereof.
Page 70 - A Chorographicall Description of all the tracts, rivers, movntains, 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 179 - Pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of Alcumystrie, The abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conueiances of Legierdemaine and iuggling are deciphered: and many other things opened, which haue long lien hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be knowne.

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