 | Richard Eden, Sebastian Münster - America - 1885 - 468 pages
...arrogancie, that to tranflate the variable hiftorie of Plinie into our toonge, I wolde be amamed to borowe fo muche of the Latine as he Dothe of the Greke, althowgh the Latine toonge be accompted ryche, and the Englyfme indigent and barbarous, as it hathe byn in tyme pad, muche more then it nowe is, before it... | |
 | Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Sebastian Münster - America - 1885 - 460 pages
...that to tranflate the variable hiftorie of Plinie into our toonge, I wolde be afhamed to borowe fo muche of the Latine as he Dothe of the Greke, althowgh the Latine toonge be accompted ryche, and the Englyffhe indigent and barbarous, as it hathe byn in tyme paft, muche more then it nowe is, before... | |
 | Wilhelm Zenke - Anglo-Saxon language - 1910 - 588 pages
...Honour sumwhat Doubted that the booke coulde not be translated into the Englysshe toonge, I assure you Honour that this I Dare saye without arrogancie, that...the Greke, althowgh the Latine toonge be accompted ryehe, and the Englyeshe indigent and barbarous, as it hathe byn in tyme past, mache more then it nowe... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...attitude that Richard Eden was already able, in 1562, to view with retrospective relief: 'the Latin toonge be accompted ryche, and the Englysshe indigent...barbarous, as it hathe byn in tyme past, muche more than it nowe is, before it was enriched and amplified by sundry bookes in manner of all artes' (quoted... | |
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Honour that this I Dare saye without arrogancie, that to translate the variable historic of Plinie into our toonge, I wolde be ashamed to borowe so muche of the Latine as he Dothe of the Greke, althowgh the Latine toonge be accompted ryche, and the Englysshe... 