| Robert Louis Fowler - History - 2004 - 448 pages
...fed into his own rousing brand of literary patriotism: I apply'd my selfe to ... fix all the industry and art i could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; not to make verbal curiosities the end, that were a toylsom vanity, but to be an interpreter & relater of the best and... | |
| Jason Lawrence - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...to the resolution which Ariosto follow'd against the perswasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; ... to be an interpreter & relater of the best and sagest things among mine owne Citizens throughout... | |
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