The book The English Familiar Essay; Representative Texts; was written by author Crane, Ronald S. (Ronald Salmon), 1886-1967 Here you can read free online of The English Familiar Essay; Representative Texts; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The English Familiar Essay; Representative Texts; a good or bad book?
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Finally, however, through the influence of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Bucking- ham, he was given a lease of land in Surrey. 6. a corps perdu : without reflection or hope of return. 7. Non ego perfidum dixi sacramentum : Horace, Odes II, xvii, 9-10: " I have not sworn a perjured oath." Page 67. 8. Nee vos, dulcissima mundi : the editors have been unable to discover the source of this quotation. 9. quantum suf6.cit : a sufficient quantity. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHARACTERS JOHN EARLE Ear...le's "characters" were first printed in 1628 under the title of Microcosmographie^ or a Piece of the IVorld Discovered in Essays and Cha7'acters. There were many later editions. The present text is taken from Arber's reprint of the editio princeps in English Reprints (1869). A Mere Young Gentleman of the University No. 23 in the edition of 1628. Page 69. 1 . neat silk strings : strings were used in the seventeenth century, as earlier, to hold the covers of books shut. 2. a piece of Euphormio : Etipho7inio7iis Saty?'ico7i, a satirical novel written in Latin prose by John Barclay (i 582-1 621), a Scotchman who lived and wrote for the most part on the Continent.
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