Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 77

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Chetham Society., 1869 - Cheshire (England)

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Page 472 - Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five 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 319 - Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. 5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Page 319 - Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and prospered ; and all Israel obeyed him.
Page 325 - To that which was done in the former Impression, thus much is now added. 1 In the life of Chaucer many things inserted. 2 The whole worke by old Copies reformed. 3 Sentences and Prouerbes noted.
Page 282 - CRASHAW (RICHARD). Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro.
Page 515 - In th' empyraeum of pure harmony. At length, after so long, so loud a strife Of all the strings, still breathing the best life Of blest variety attending on His fingers' fairest revolution In many a sweet rise, many as sweet a fall, A full-mouth diapason swallows all.
Page 471 - Thy life and worth, but he that hath liv'd so : He must have Wit to spare, and to hurl down, Enough to keep the gallants of the town. He must have Learning plenty ; both the Laws, Civil and Common, to judge any cause.; Divinity, great store, above the rest, Not of the last edition, but the best. He must have Language, Travel, all the Arts, Judgment to use, or else he wants thy parts. He must have friends the highest, able to do, Such as Mecaenas and Augustus too.
Page 462 - A merrie recorder of London mistaking the name of one Pepper, call'd him Piper: whereunto the partie excepting, and saying : Sir, you mistake, my name is Pepper, not Piper: hee answered : Why, what difference is there (I pray thee) between Piper in Latin, and Pepper in English; is it not all one ? No, sir (reply'd the other) there is even as much difference betweene them, as is between a Pipe and a Recorder.
Page 364 - A Lamentable, and pitifull Description, of the wofull war,res in Flaunders, since the foure last yeares of the Emperor Charles the fifth his raigne. With a briefe rehearsall of many things done since that season, vntill this present yeare, and death of Don lohn. Written by Thomas Churchyarde Gentleman. — Mack ILrtter- — Imprinted at London by Ralph Newberie, 1.578. Quarto, pp. 88 <£?. 7s. Dedicated " to the Right Honorable, Sir Frauncis Walsingham Knight...
Page 407 - The Historie of the Two Valiant Knights, Syr Clyomon Knight of the Golden Sheeld, sonne to the King of Denmarke : And Clamydes the white Knight, sonne to the King of Suauia.

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