 The king being at Oxford during the civil wars, went one day to see the public library, where he was shewn, among other books, a Virgil, nobly printed and exquisitely bound. The Lord Falkland, to divert the king, would have his majesty make a trial of...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Página 1921818Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 584 páginas
...King Charles I. tried the sortes Virgiliana, as is related by Welwood in the following passage :— "The king being at Oxford during the civil wars, went one day to see the public library, where he was showed among other books, a Virgil nobly printed, and exquisitely... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 556 páginas
...not " below the majesty of history to mention." Agreeing with him, we repeat it in his own words : " The king being at Oxford during the Civil Wars, went one day to see the public library, where he was shewn among other books a Virgil nobly г ш ai? ir ir ЩР Interior... | |
 | Thomas Longueville - 1897 - 242 páginas
...Falkland wished to distract and amuse him. I will give Wellwood's description* of what occurred. " The King being at Oxford during the Civil Wars, went one day to see the public library, where he was shewed among other books a Virgil nobly printed and exquisitely... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 882 páginas
...lines in the Fourth JEneid, At bello audacis populi vexatus et armis, &c.2 ' Holy water pot. • ' The King being at Oxford during the Civil Wars went one day to see the public library, where he was showed among' other things a Virgil nobly printed and exquisitely... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1907 - 430 páginas
...an accident which though a trifle in itself, and that no weight is to be laid upon anything of that nature ; yet since the best authors, both ancient...to mention the like it may be the more excusable to insert it. The King . . . went one day to see the Public Library when he was showed among other books... | |
 | 1910 - 356 páginas
...the Founder, who had made the place so sacred.' A Bodleian Guide, by Andrew Clark. Clar. Press, 1906. THE King being at Oxford during the Civil Wars went one day to see the Publick Library, where he was show'd among Other Books, a Virgil nobly painted and exquisitely... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - 676 páginas
...visit of King Charles I to the Bodleian in 1642, and is given by Macray1 out of Welwood's Memoirs. The King being at Oxford during the Civil Wars, went one day to see the Public Library, where he was shown, among other Books, a Virgil nobly printed and exquisitely... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 612 páginas
...accident, which, though a trifle in itself, and that no weight is to lie laid upon any thing of that nature; yet, since the best authors, both ancient...majesty of history to mention the like, it may be more excusable to take notice of. The KING being at Oxford during the civil wars, went one day to see... | |
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