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... Italy . That he was at Rome , appears from his poem , called " Flecnoe an English Priest , " which is supposed to have suggested to Dryden his famous satire of Mc Flecnoe , wherein he avenged himself on his old enemy Shadwell , whose ...
... Italy . That he was at Rome , appears from his poem , called " Flecnoe an English Priest , " which is supposed to have suggested to Dryden his famous satire of Mc Flecnoe , wherein he avenged himself on his old enemy Shadwell , whose ...
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... Italy , and Spaine , to very good purpose , as I believe , and the gaineing of those four languages ; besides , he is a scholler , and well read in the Latin and Greek authors ; and no doubt of an approved conversation , for he comes ...
... Italy , and Spaine , to very good purpose , as I believe , and the gaineing of those four languages ; besides , he is a scholler , and well read in the Latin and Greek authors ; and no doubt of an approved conversation , for he comes ...
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... Italy . It is not without effort that we remember that Cæsar's Commentaries were written by the same man who conquered at Pharsalia . And what reader of Childe Harold thinks of Lord Byron's speech about the Nottingham Frame- breakers ...
... Italy . It is not without effort that we remember that Cæsar's Commentaries were written by the same man who conquered at Pharsalia . And what reader of Childe Harold thinks of Lord Byron's speech about the Nottingham Frame- breakers ...
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... Italian cities too often evinces , and Bentley made the most of it in Trinity College . But finding this method too slow for his impatience , he determined to starve the combinators to a surrender , and to shew the Fellows , that if ...
... Italian cities too often evinces , and Bentley made the most of it in Trinity College . But finding this method too slow for his impatience , he determined to starve the combinators to a surrender , and to shew the Fellows , that if ...
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... Italy to Alcala , in 1514 , to aid in forming that famous Polyglot Bible , edited under the auspices of Cardinal Ximenes , the earliest impres- sion of the sacred writings in their original languages , commonly known as the ...
... Italy to Alcala , in 1514 , to aid in forming that famous Polyglot Bible , edited under the auspices of Cardinal Ximenes , the earliest impres- sion of the sacred writings in their original languages , commonly known as the ...
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Page 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Page 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
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