The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A.., Opseg 1

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Samuel Bagster, in the Strand., 1724
 

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Stranica xviii - HORNS so much prevailed, which, though it be now generally disus'd, yet the custom of blowing them prevails at this season even to this day, at Oxford, to remind people of the pleasantness of that part of the year...
Stranica xviii - ... yet the custom of blowing them prevails at this season, even to this day, at Oxford, to remind people of the pleasantness of that part of the year, which ought to create mirth and gayety, such as is sketch'd out in some old books of Offices, .such as the ' Prymer of Salisbury,
Stranica 1 - Of selver or and of gold, of tyn and of lede ; Of stel, of yrn, and of bras ; of god corn gret won Of whyte and of wolle god, betere ne may be non.
Stranica l - Tis the genius of the age that is to be regarded in such pieces of poetry. The poetry of those times consisted of rhythms both here and in other countries, and the poets thought they had done their parts well, if their rhythms, however mean otherwise, related matter of fact, and were agreeable to truth. Fuller...
Stranica xii - Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep place, into the lake, and were choked.
Stranica 27 - ... against her faithless husband, who was slain in the first encounter. Astrild and her daughter Averne then fell into the power of Gwendolen, who, according to old Robert of Gloucester, was a "sturne wommon," and caused them both to be drowned in the Severn.
Stranica lxxxv - ... tis a greater reproach that the BLACK-LETTER, which was the character so much in use in our grandfather's days, should be now (as it were) disused and rejected ; especially when we know the best editions of our English Bible and Common-Prayer (to say nothing of other books) are printed in it.
Stranica xxxix - ... said Earl and his lady be confined to some convenient place : it is therefore, according to His Majesty's gracious pleasure and command, ordered, That the Earl of Somerset and his lady do repair either to Grays or Cowsham, the Lord Wallingford's houses, in the county of Oxon, and remain confined to one or either of the said houses, and within three miles' compass of either of the same, until further order be given by His Majesty.
Stranica xxiii - For ir.y part, the oftener I consult this chronicle, the more I wonder at the things in it, and I cannot but esteem the book as extremely pleasant, useful, and curious, by reason of these very odd cuts.
Stranica l - ... valuable as the chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Declining also, as he does, to compare him with Chaucer, in respect to poetical merit, he claims for him the honour of being the first of English writers. " He, and not Chaucer," says he, " as Dr Fuller and some others would have it, is the genius of the English nation, and he is, on that account, to be as much respected as ever Ennius himself was among the Romans, and I have good reason to think that he will be so by friends to our antiquities...

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