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... Homer and Euripides , Plato , Aristotle and Galene playnelye do shewe : when through all their workes ( in a maner ) they determine all cōtrouersies , by these .ii . Poetes and suche lyke authorities . Therfore if in this matter I seme ...
... Homer and Euripides , Plato , Aristotle and Galene playnelye do shewe : when through all their workes ( in a maner ) they determine all cōtrouersies , by these .ii . Poetes and suche lyke authorities . Therfore if in this matter I seme ...
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... Homer doth despise onse to name him , in all his workes . The other father was a Lydian borne , whiche people for suche gamnes , and other vnthriftines , as boowlyng and hauntyng of tauernes , haue bene euer had in most vile reputation ...
... Homer doth despise onse to name him , in all his workes . The other father was a Lydian borne , whiche people for suche gamnes , and other vnthriftines , as boowlyng and hauntyng of tauernes , haue bene euer had in most vile reputation ...
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... Homer , to compasse it : yet because I euer thought hys sayinges to haue as muche authoritie , as eyther Sophocles or Euripides in Greke , therfore gladly do I remembre these verses of hys . Hasardry is Very mother of lesinges , And of ...
... Homer , to compasse it : yet because I euer thought hys sayinges to haue as muche authoritie , as eyther Sophocles or Euripides in Greke , therfore gladly do I remembre these verses of hys . Hasardry is Very mother of lesinges , And of ...
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... Homer haue bene the best capitayne , moost cowarde , hardye , hasty , wyse and woode , sage and simple : And Terence an ouldeman & a yong , an honest man and a bawde : with suche lyke . Surelye euerye man ought to praye to God dayly ...
... Homer haue bene the best capitayne , moost cowarde , hardye , hasty , wyse and woode , sage and simple : And Terence an ouldeman & a yong , an honest man and a bawde : with suche lyke . Surelye euerye man ought to praye to God dayly ...
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... Homer doeth well shewe , by the Sirenes , and Circes . And amonges all in that shyp there was but one Vlysses , and yet he hadde done to as the other dyd , yf a goddesse had not taught hym : And so lykewyse I thinke , they be easye to ...
... Homer doeth well shewe , by the Sirenes , and Circes . And amonges all in that shyp there was but one Vlysses , and yet he hadde done to as the other dyd , yf a goddesse had not taught hym : And so lykewyse I thinke , they be easye to ...
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Page 202 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 231 - This is good stuffe, for wise men to laughe at, or honest men to take pleasure at. Yet I know, when Gods Bible was banished the Court, and Morte Arthure receiued into the Princes chamber.
Page 188 - For this I know, not only by reading of books in my study, but also by experience of life, abroad in the world, that those which be commonly the wisest, the best learned, and best men also, when they be old, were never commonly the quickest of wit when they were young.
Page 230 - Ten sermons at Paul's Cross do not so much good for moving men to true doctrine, as one of those books do harm with enticing men to ill living. Yea, I say farther, those books tend not so much to corrupt honest living, as they do to subvert true religion.
Page 201 - I speake, kepe silence, sit, stand, or go, eate, drinke, be merie, or sad, be sowyng, plaiyng, dauncing, or doing anie thing els, I must do it, as it were, in soch weight, mesure, and number, even so perfitelie, as God made the world, or else I am so sharplie taunted, so cruellie threatened, yea presentlie some...
Page 121 - A REPORT AND DISCOURSE, written by Roger Ascham, of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles, his court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there.
Page 205 - ... they have commonly the rein of all license in their own hand, and specially such as do live in the court. And that which is most to be marveled at, commonly the wisest and also best men be found the fondest fathers in this behalf.
Page 192 - And though I, in all this discourse, seem plainly to prefer hard and rough wits before quick and light wits both for learning and manners, yet...
Page 265 - Ye know not what hurt ye do to learning that care not for words, but for matter, and so make a divorce betwixt the tongue and the heart.
Page xiv - I communed with a man whiche reasoned the englyshe tongue to be enryched and~encreased therby, sayinge : Who wyll not prayse that feaste, where a man shall drinke at a diner, bothe wyne, ale and beere ? Truely quod I, they be all good, euery one taken by hym selfe alone, but if you putte...