Thomas Wright:The life of Edward FitzGerald Volume 2
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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 64 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: . . . the Hengwrt MSS. , one (in No. 406) attributed to the thirteenth, another (in No. 540) to the fourteenth century; and the Red Book of Hergest (coll. 964 and 1057) also contains two collections, each far more extensive than the one printed here, written at the end of the fourteenth century. It may be remarked that some, probably many, of the more difficult Welsh Proverbs have been misread and mistranslated by the modern collectors, from John Davies downwards; hence the great importance of any collections made by persons who wrote at a period when many of the now obsolete proverbs were living proverbs, and their signification well understood. (h, i) No. xn and No. xin. St. Augustine on the thickness of the Earth and Soliloquy of the Soul. Copies of 1 The r in the word is a decidedly bad one, but it cannot (the writer believes) be taken as standing for a c, which it rather resembles, and certainly not for a t. Probably the scribe did not quite know which to write, derwyd or detwyd, and so began with one, and finished with the other letter. The counsel imganlin a deduit is found in the Black Book of Carmarthen, fo. 4 (Skene, vol. ii, p. 5; Poem ii, l. 9). 2 The spelling in the MS. , Dihaerebyon, should be noticed. Professor Rhys points out that this confirms what he has always believed to be the derivation of dihareb, from dihaer-and eb. VOL. VII. , K these two short tracts, in the same order, occur in the Bed Book of Hergest, col. 585. The last of them is certainly traceable to the same source as a not uncommon old English epitaph, of which the following specimen was once to be found in Tiverton Church (see Murrays Handbook to Devon and Cornwall by the late Richard John King, ed. 1872, 1 p. 38): What wee gave, wee have;. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: . . . you more for a rare moth than for introducing a customer. I was born, Spalding once lamented, with tastes beyond my means. I am afraid we all are, said Mr. Alfred Smith consolingly, who on his part had no reason for complaint, for by dint of close application to the business of his farms he had coaxed Dame Fortune into smiles, and was sending horses all over the world. What to do with Spalding was with FitzGerald a kind of Eastern Question. Finally he said, The only thing we really can do with the delightful fellow is to get him a place in some museum. Whether by FitzGeralds influence or 1 Tiles seem to have fallen out of favour because they so often get loose. This is because builders use iron nails, which of course soon rust and perish. When copper nails are used tiles are said to last longer than slates. 2 On the flyleaf of a copy of Miss Kdgeworths Frank, which he presented to Spalding, FitzGerald quoted Dr. Johnsons remark to Bozzy, He was pleased to say to me, Boswell, I am almost easier with you than with anybody. some other, this subsequently came about. Spalding got appointed curator of the Castle Museum at Colchester, and there among Roman, Norman, and Gothic ruins, in a charming old castle (built for him eight hundred years previous by some jolly old mail-clad baron), among coins, old pottery, metal curios, and fragments of armour, he lived a perfectly congenial life. The square man had got into the square hole. He was happy ever after. Other Woodbridge acquaintances of FitzGerald were Mr. Thomas Grimwood, whose cutter figures in the letters to Posh, and Mr. John Loder, the bookseller in The Thoroughfare. John FitzGerald continued his career of preaching and philanthropy. He had many pensioners, and fitted up 149 John . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<