Nugæ Antiquæ:: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers, in Prose and Verse; Written During the Reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary, Elizabeth, and King James: |
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Page 9 - A catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Island, together with a briefe history of their lives and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity.
Page 91 - Hay any worke for Cooper: Or a briefe Pistle directed by waye of an hublication to the reverende Byshopps, counselling them, if they will needs be barrelled vp, for feare of smelling in the nostrels of her Maiestie and the State, that they would vse the aduise of reuerend Martin, for the prouiding of their Cooper.
Page 57 - I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses, as Bubonax was, to hang himself; nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet; and when you die, your memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph.
Page 338 - Oh shameles hore is dred then gone by suche thy foes as ment thy weale Oh membre of false Babylon the shopp of craft, the denne of ire thy dredfull dome drawes fast...
Page 158 - I must say this much of him ; his breeding was from his childhood in good litterature, and partly in musique, which was counted in those dayes a preparation to divinitie, neither could any be admitted to primam tonsuram, except he could first bene le, bene con, bene can, (as they call it,) which is to reade well, to conster well, and to sing well ; in which last he hath good judgement, and I have heard good music of voyces in his house.
Page 91 - England'] to bee an vnskilfull and a beceytfull tubtrimmer. Wherein worthy Martin quits himselfe like a man I warrant you, in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned Pistles, and makes the Coopers hoopes to flye off, and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all crye.
Page 152 - Madam, I know not how much the woman is above twenty, but I know a son of hers who is little under forty.
Page 203 - accomplished, as a poet, the sublimest object of poetic ambition, — he has dissipated the general prejudice that held it hardly possible for a modern author to succeed in sacred poetry. He has proved that verse and devotion are natural allies. He has shown that true poetical genius cannot be more honourably...
Page 248 - The kingdoms of the earth are mine, and I do give them to whom I will ; and I have given them to Nebuchadnezzar, and his son, and his son's son...
Page 368 - And when my withered skyn vnto my bones did cleue, And fleshe did wast, thy grace did then my simple sprits releue. In other succour then, Oh Lord, why should I trust, But onely thyn, whom I haue found in thy behight so iust. 60 And suche for drede or gayne, as shall thy name refuse, Shall perishe with their golden godds that did their harts seduce.