Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 326
... better claim to the distinction ) , and to a third ( presumably Peele ) . The ' brother ' of atheism ( doubtless for brocher or broacher ) was formerly assumed to be Kett , burnt for heresy at Norwich in 1589. But as Kett was no atheist ...
... better claim to the distinction ) , and to a third ( presumably Peele ) . The ' brother ' of atheism ( doubtless for brocher or broacher ) was formerly assumed to be Kett , burnt for heresy at Norwich in 1589. But as Kett was no atheist ...
Page 438
... better cure than businesse , as Rhasis holds : and howbeit stultus labor est ineptiarum , to be busied in toyes is to small purpose , yet hear that divine Seneca , better aliud agere quam nihil , better doe to no end than nothing . I ...
... better cure than businesse , as Rhasis holds : and howbeit stultus labor est ineptiarum , to be busied in toyes is to small purpose , yet hear that divine Seneca , better aliud agere quam nihil , better doe to no end than nothing . I ...
Page 548
... better than any of them - Selden's Table - talk ? ' Coleridge declared , not without exaggeration , ' There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I can find in the same number of pages of any uninspired writer . ' The ...
... better than any of them - Selden's Table - talk ? ' Coleridge declared , not without exaggeration , ' There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I can find in the same number of pages of any uninspired writer . ' The ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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