The works of sir Thomas Urquhart [ed. by T. Mailtand].

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Page 240 - Mantua testified their esteem by a public mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other.
Page 226 - ... that they all had looked with multiplying glasses, and that, like that angel in the Scripture whose voice was said to be like the voice of a multitude, they heard in him alone the promiscuous speech of fifteen several actors; by the various ravishments of the excellencies whereof, in the frolickness of a jocund...
Page 226 - Those fifteen several personages he did represent with such excellency of garb, and exquisiteness of language, that condignly to perpend the subtlety of the invention, the method of the disposition, the neatness of the elocution, the gracefulness of the action and wonderful variety in the so dextrous performance of all, you would have taken it for a comedy of five acts, consisting of three scenes, each composed by the best poet in the world, and acted by fifteen of the best players that ever lived,...
Page 315 - For the affirmation, negation, and infinitation of propositions, it hath proprieties unknown to any other language, most necessary for knowledge. 133. Three and sixtiethly, In matters of Enthymems, Syllogisms, and all manner of illative ratiocination, it is the most compendious in the world.1) 134.
Page 188 - ... five score and sixteen quires and a half, treating of metaphysical, mathematical], moral, mythological, epigrammatical, dialectical, and chronological matters, in a way never hitherto trod upon by any ; being brought by the said Sir Thomas into England for two reasons — first, lest they should have been altogether lost at Sterlin ; and next, to have them printed at London, with the best conveniencie that might stand with indemnity of the Author ; whom, when I had asked if his...
Page 3 - Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Counsel in both kingdomes.
Page 280 - For greatness, Mr. Speaker, I think a man may speak it soberly and without bravery, that this kingdom of England, having Scotland united, Ireland reduced, the sea provinces of the Low Countries contracted, and shipping maintained, is one of the greatest monarchies, in forces truly esteemed, that hath been in the world.
Page 220 - Navarre, where (at the prefixed time) he should (God willing) be ready to answer to what should be propounded to him concerning any science, liberal art, discipline or faculty, practical or theoretic, not excluding the theological nor jurisprudential habits, though grounded but upon the testimonies of God and man, and that in any of these twelve languages, Hebrew...
Page 239 - O, villains! what have you done? you vipers of men, that have thus basely slain the valiant Crichtoun, the sword of his own sex, and buckler of ours, the glory of this age, and restorer of the lost honour of the court of Mantua — O, Crichtoun, Crichtoun ! At which last words, the prince hearing them uttered by the lady in the world he loved best, and of the man in the world he • most affected, was suddenly seized upon by such extremity of sorrow for the unhappiness of that lamentable mischance,...
Page 217 - ... for at last with a thrust in the throat he was killed dead upon the ground. This nevertheless not a whit dismayed the other two; for the next day he that was second in the roll, gave his appearance after the same manner as the first had done, but with no better success; for he likewise was laid flat dead upon the place, by means of a thrust he received in the heart. The last of the three finding that he was as sure of being engaged in the fight as if he had been the first in order...

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