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" I say not this but that in euery shyre of England there be gentlemen and others that speake, but specially write, as good Southerne as we of Middlesex or Surrey do, but not the common people of euery shire, to whom the gentlemen, and also their learned... "
Principles of English Etymology: The native element - Page 507
by Walter William Skeat - 1892
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Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy, Volume 1

Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1811 - 330 pages
...their learned clarkes do for the most part condescend, but heroin we are already ruled by th'English Dictionaries and other bookes written by learned men,...therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalfe. Albeit peraduenture some small admonition be not impertinent, for we finde in our English writers many...
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Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy, Volume 1

Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1811 - 326 pages
...their learned clarkes do for the most part condescend, but herein we are already ruled by th'English Dictionaries and other bookes written by learned men, and therefore it needeth none o1 her direction in that behalfe. Albeit peraduenture some small admonition be not impertinent, for...
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...for the most part condescend ; but herein we are ruled by the English dictionaries and other books written by learned men ; and therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalf. Albeit peradventure some small admonition be not impertinent, for we find in our English writers...
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The Arte of English Poesie, [June?] 1589

George Puttenham, Richard Puttenham - Poetry - 1869 - 372 pages
...their learned clarkes do for the mofl part condefcend, but herein we are already ruled by th'Englifh Dictionaries and other bookes written by learned men,...therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalfe. Albeit peraduenture fome finall admonition be not impertinent, for we finde in our Englifh writers...
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Memoirs of the court of queen Elizabeth. Repr. of the 6th ed

Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 pages
...for the most part condescend ; but herein we are ruled by the English dictionaries and other books written by learned men ; and therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalf. Albeit peradventure some small admonition be not impertinent, for we find in our English writers...
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The English Bible: An External and Critical History of the Various ..., Volume 2

John Eadie - Bible - 1876 - 440 pages
...for the most part condescend ; but herein we are ruled by the English dictionaries and other books written by learned men ; and therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalf. Albeit peradventure some small admonition be not impertinent, for we find in our English writers...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...most part condescend ; but herein we ara already ruled by the English dictionaries, and other books written by learned men. and therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalf. END OF VOLUME I. CYCLOPAEDIA 4 OF ENGLISH LITERATURE A HISTORY, CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,...
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Principles of English Etymology: The native element

Walter William Skeat - English language - 1887 - 622 pages
...Westeme mans speach : ye shall therefore take the vsuall speach of the Court, and that of London and the shires lying about London within Ix. myles, and...English Poesie; lib. iii. c. 4 (ed. Arber, p. 157). its existence. But see p. 78, note 2 ; and compare the following statement made at a meeting of the...
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English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage

John Earle - English language - 1890 - 612 pages
...also their learned clarkes do for the most part condescend, but herein we are already ruled by the English Dictionaries and other bookes written by learned...therefore it needeth none other direction in that behalfe. — George Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie, p. 120 f. Every idiom would be found to rest upon Home...
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English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage

John Earle - English language - 1890 - 552 pages
...also their learned clarkes do for the most part condescend, but herein we are already ruled by the English Dictionaries and other bookes written by learned...men, and therefore it needeth none other direction in thatbehalfe. — George Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie, p. 120 f. Every idiom would be found to...
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