 | Saint Thomas More - Utopias - 1808 - 334 pages
...insomuch that one, of no small reputation among them, said after this manner : " The Englishmen, quoth be, have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as weH as the king!" p. 187; quoted in Mr. Ellti's, Spec. Eng. Poet. vol. i. 322, 3. VOL. U. CHAPTER... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...large diet was used in many of these " so homely cottages; insomuch, that one of no " small reputation amongst them, said after this " manner: 'These English,...dirt, but they fare " commonly so well as the king." (Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187.) We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...homely cottages ; jnsomuch, that one of no " small reputation amongst them, said after this " manner : 1 These English, quoth he, have their " houses made of sticks and dirt, but they far* " commonly so well as the king." (Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p.... | |
 | 1802 - 886 pages
...insomuch, that one of no small ' reputation amongst them, said • after this manner : " These Eng' lish/' quoth he, "have their houses ' made of sticks and...dirt, but they ' fare commonly so well as the ' king." ' Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187. " We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...that one of no small ' reputation amongst them, said ' after this manner : " These Kng' lish/' quolh he, "have their houses ' made of sticks and dirt, but they ' fare commonly so well as the ' king." ' Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187. " We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...that large diet was used in many of their so homely cottages, insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them, said, after this manner: these English,...well as the king. Whereby it appeareth, that he liked befter of our good fare in such coarse cabins, than of their own thin diet in their princely habitations... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 466 pages
...large diet was used in many of 'these " so homely cottages ; insomuch that one of no " small reputation amongst them said after this " manner : ' These English,'...dirt, but they fare " commonly so well as the king.'" (Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187.) We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...large diet was used in many of " these so homely cottages, insomuch that one of no " small reputation amongst them said after this manner ; " these English,...appeareth that he liked better of " our good fare in such course cabins, than of their own '* thin diet in their princely habitations and palaces. The " clay... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...large diet was used in manie of these so homelie cottages, in so much tliat one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner : These English (quoth he) have their houses made of sticks and durt, but they fare commonlie so well as the king. Whereby it appeared) that he liked hetter of our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...this rude kind of building made the Spaniards in Q. Mary's day to wonder, and say, " these English have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.'' Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Hollingsh. p. 18/. Ellis's Specimen of Engl. Poets,... | |
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Certes this rude kind of building made the Spaniards in Queen Mary's days to wonder, but chiefly when they saw what large diet was used in many of these so homely cottages; insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner —... 
