Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works: With Extracts from His Correspondence, Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries, and of the Times in which He LivedJ.B. Nichols and son, 1845 - 131 páginas |
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Página 96 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 35 - October 10], he had every night a meeting at the (then) Turke's head, in the New Pallaceyard, where they take water, the next house to the staires, at one Miles's, where was made purposely a large ovall-table, with a passage in the middle for Miles to deliver his Coffee. About it sate his disciples, and the virtuosi.
Página 31 - Aubury [Avebury], into the closes there: where I was wonderfully surprised at the sight of those vast stones, of which I had never heard before, as also at the mighty bank and graffe [ditch] about it.
Página 28 - honour to see this worthy learned man, who was then pleased to take notice of me, and the next day came and visited my relations. He was a proper man, brisk, and in very good equipage [equipment] ; his hair was then quite black. He staid at Malmesbury and in the neighbourhood a week or better; 'twas the last time that ever he was in Wiltshire.
Página 2 - Colleges, shall be balloted for at the Meeting at which they are proposed. V. — That the management of the affairs of the Society be vested in a Council, consisting of a President, (who shall not be eligible for that office for more than two successive years,) a Treasurer, a Secretary, and not more than twelve nor less than seven other Members, to be elected from amongst the Members of the Society who are graduates of the University.
Página xiii - Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations . . . London, 1813. 2 v. in 1. for the Royal Historical Society by Georges Bernard . . . London, 1910. Camden soc. 3 ser. v. 18, p. 61-149. Ms. has title "Hector britannicus.
Página 27 - The fashion then was to save the forules of their bookes with a false cover of parchment, sc. old manuscript, which I [could not] was too young to understand; but I was pleased with the elegancy of the writing and the coloured initiall letters.
Página 86 - Michael) come forth into the nymph-hay* with their rocks \ and wheels to spin : and with their sewing work.
Página 43 - I would earnestly recommend to any hypochondriac : "•A pretender to antiquities, roving, magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than erased ; and being exceedingly credulous, would stuff his many letters sent to AW with folliries and misinformations.
Página 43 - But his estate of 700 pounds per an. being afterwards sold, and he reserving nothing of it to himself, liv'd afterwards in a very sorry condition, and at length made shift to rub out by hanging on Edmund Wyld Esq.