London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's plays, I at last chose Dr. Fuller's Worthys, the Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, and a little book, Delices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of... Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the Admiralty ... - Página 72de Samuel Pepys - 1855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 834 páginas
...Delices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure ; and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery,...and to read in Rushworth ; and so home to supper and to-bed. Calling at Wotton's, my shoe-maker's, to-day, he tells me that Sir H. Wright is dying ; and... | |
| J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 páginas
...Delices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure ; and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery,...by link home, and so to my office, and to read in Rustiworth ; and so home to supper and to-bed. Calling at Wotton's, my shoe- maker's, to-day, he tells... | |
| 1825 - 724 páginas
...second part more in compliance with fashion than from judgment, for hd calls it, " The book now in the greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." P. 366. Of Mr. (afterwards Sir Peter) Lilly (Lely), he thus speaks : " After I had done with the Dnfce,... | |
| 1849 - 468 páginas
...nature was," he adds, " most earnest in," and " did choose Hudibras, both parts, the book now in the greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." "The sons of Zeruiah are too strong for us," replied Oliver, to a hint that he should get rid of some... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 páginas
...Délices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure ; and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery,...cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." So he seems to have laid out his money in this last instance in the way of duty, or of penance, rather... | |
| 1845 - 570 páginas
...Hollande,' with another little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure ; and ' Hudibras,' both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery,...in Rushworth ; and so home to supper and to bed." Allusion is made in one of the above extracts to Fuller's memory, of which many marvellous anecdotes... | |
| 1846 - 396 páginas
...record. We may guess from what he has written on memory that he was drilled into the art of it by— book now in greatest fashion for drollery, though...in Rushworth ; and so home to supper and to bed." ' Great Nature's sergeant—that is, Order' (as Spenser tells us). If you desire to remember well,... | |
| 1848 - 622 páginas
...the preacher. His judgment regarding another work of genius, is of a piece. " This book (Hudibras) now in greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." In the prefatory account of the life of the Revd. John Ward, vicar of Stratford upon Avon, who had... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 páginas
...Hollande,' with another little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure ; and ' Hudibras,' both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery,...cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." These two folio editions supplied the readers of Shakspere for more than forty years, but we are not... | |
| 1875 - 676 páginas
...at last chose Dr. Fuller's Worthy», the Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, and Hudibras, both parts the book now in greatest fashion for drollery,...cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." The last notice in the Diary I have quoted thus fully to show what were the books in vogue in Pepys's... | |
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