"Of Common Places, Or Memorial Books": A Seventeenth-century Manuscript from the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn CollectionBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2001 - 10 pages |
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... flowers To make a glorious garland for my head From fields whose blooms the Muses never picked To crown the brows of any man before . ' PIV 245 03 2001 Thus did the ancient Roman philosopher - poet Lucretius thrill to the prospect of ...
... flowers To make a glorious garland for my head From fields whose blooms the Muses never picked To crown the brows of any man before . ' PIV 245 03 2001 Thus did the ancient Roman philosopher - poet Lucretius thrill to the prospect of ...
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Anthony Grafton appears apt incitements art of memory blooms the Muses Bury's Cambridge Cato the Elder century collections Collector is already commonplace books Desiderius Erasmus difficult words Disticha Catonis don avorking Earle Havens early modern enter entries essay on commonplace expositions Farnaby's fields whose blooms fixture of intellectual Fuller Genesis genre hand by Experiments holy state London ibis in urbem imitation Index booke Latin literary little books Lucretius Lucretius's mark matter of thoughts Memorial Books Memory is greatly Michel de Montaigne modus in rebus Montaigne Moss Muses never picked nood Ovid Oxford English dictionary Philip Melanchthon philosophers place against common place books partakes poets printed reference Renaissance rerum Richard Cromleholme Bury Richard Grummere Roads of Moralls Seneca sententiae soul of brutes theological thesaurus things Thomas Thomas Fuller Thomas Hobbes Thomas Willis transl treatise Tristia verse virgin spring Waste books whence writing common place