The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Francis Turner Palgrave
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century.' Like Vergil, Bacon passed at one time for a magician.
_That new doctrine_; Grocyn was perhaps the first Englishman who studied Greek under Chalcondylas the Byzantine at Florence; certainly the first who lectured on Greek in England. This was in the Hall of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1491. To him Erasmus (1499) came to study the language.--See the brilliant account of the revival of learning in Green, _Hist_. B. V: ch. ii. _Master, who alone_; See _The Poet's Euthanasia_. _Sebastian_; Cabot, who, in 1497, sailed from Bristol, and reached Florida. _The golden sun_; Refers to Copernicus; whose solar system was, however, not published till 1543. _The little-ones_; Colet, Dean of S. Paul's, founded the school in 1510. 'The bent of its founder's mind was shown by the image of the Child Jesus over the master's chair, with the words _Hear ye Him_ graven beneath it' (Green: B. V: ch. iv). _Fifty years_; Between 1570 and 1620 lies almost all the glorious production of our so-called Elizabethan period. _From Libethrion_;--_Nymphae, noster amor, Libethrides_! . . . What a music is there in the least little fragment of Vergil's exquisite art! |
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