 Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.  The Classical Journal - Page 1921813Full view - About this book
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 518 pages
...Schools. I am inclined, however, to suspect that the reviewer is not very intimately acquainted with the works of this distinguished writer. I will therefore...Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that!) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...his critics ; and, in perfect consistency with his creed, viewed his death as a recovery to life. * Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I kn<rm.] Camden was our poet's master at Westminster-school ; and gratitude has... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...retained an extraordinary degree of respect for his old master, thus addresses him in his Epigrams : " Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, and all I know — " and in the dedication of Every Man in his Humour, 1 Letters by Eminent... | |
 | William Vincent - Education - 1817 - 236 pages
...Schools. I am inclined, however, to suspect that the reviewer is not very intimately acquainted with the works of this distinguished writer : I will therefore...CAMDEN. Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe Ail that I am in arts, all that / know, (How nothing's that !) to whom my country owes The great renown,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...acquainted with the works of this distinguished writer : I will therefore call his attention to ihe following " Epigram," as it is called. , « TO WILLIAM...most reverend head, to whom I owe " All that I am in arts, all that I know, "(Hovr nothing's that!) to whom my country owe* " The great renown and name... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...therefore call his attention to ihe following " Epigram," as it is called. ' See History of John Bull. "TO WILLIAM CAMDEN. " Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe " All that I am in arts, all that I know, "(How nothing's that!) to whom my country owes " The great renown and name... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...very intimately acquainted with the works of this distinguished writer : I will therefore call his attention to the following " Epigram," as it is called....most reverend head, to whom I owe " All that I am in arts, all that I know, "(How nothing's that!) to whom my country owes " The great renown and name... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 472 pages
...by the testimony of Jonson himself, who in one of his epigrams thus gratefully apostrophises him: " Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, and that I know ! " On quitting school, his former benefactor obtained for him an exhibition... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...certainly have made great progress under Camden, who well deserved his grateful acknowledgments : — *' Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, and all I know." Indeed, as he left college in a short time, — one account says in a few... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...in a private school in Saint Martin's church; then in Westminster school; witness his own epigram;* Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know ; How nothing's that to whom my country owes The great renown and name wherewith... | |
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