A Discourse of English Poetrie. 1586, Issue 26; Issue 1870 |
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Page 23 - Oh read ouer D. JOHN BRIDGES, for it is a worthy worke : Or an epitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull volume, written against the Puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargic, by as worshipfull a prieste, JOHN BRIDGES, Presbyter, Priest or Elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum.
Page 20 - ... the struggle between the power of Words and the power of Blows, a conflict between Mind and Matter. It was necessary for the physically weak to have Eloquence : the blame of REYNARD is in the frightful misuse he makes of it. The author says, "There is in the world much seed left of the Fox, wh'_h now over all groweth and cometh sore up, though they have no red beards.
Page 47 - Quintilian giueth of bothe the best Orators Demosthenes and Tully, that from the one, nothing may be taken away, to the other, nothing may be added.
Page 25 - Map of Virginia. 1612. (3.) A Description of New England. 1616. (4.) New England's Trials. 1620 and 1622. (5.) The History of Virginia, New England, and Bermuda. 1624. (6.) An Accidence for young Seamen. 1626. (7.) His true Travels, Adventures, and Observations. 1630. (8.) Advertisements for Planters in New England, or anywhere.
Page 6 - General of the English troops in the Dutch service. Commentaries of his Services : at (i) the Storming of Cadiz in 1596, (2) the Action at Turnhout in 1597, (3) The Battle of Nieuport in 1600 ; but especially (4) the Siege of Ostend, of which place he was Governor from n June, 1601, to 7 June, 1602. 2. The retaking of The Friends' Adventure from the French by R.
Page 3 - Observations of Holland, Flanders, and France, in 1609. A most sagacious Political Study. 6. JAMES I. The Book of Sports. 1618. 7. Abp. G. ABBOTT. Narrative of his Sequestration from Office in 1627 by CHARLES I., at the instigation of BUCKINGHAM and LAUD. 8. Major-General Sir T. MORGAN. Progress [ie March"} in France and Flanders, with the 6,000 " Red Coats" at the taking of Dunkirk, etc.
Page 5 - Tatler, and Spectator.] 10. [Dr. J. ARBUTHNOT.] Law [ie War] is a Bottomless Pit, exemplified in the Case of the Lord STRUTT [the Kings of Spain], JOHN BULL [England] the Clothier, NICHOLAS FROG [Holland] the Linendraper, and LEWIS BABOON [Louis XIV. of Bourbon= France].
Page 28 - Paston Letters are an Important testimony to the progressive condition of society, and come in as a precious link in the chain of the moral history of England, which they alone in this period supply. They stand Indeed singly in Europe.
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