| Charles Cordiner - 1788 - 448 pages
...been at that time generally underftood. The earlieft infcriptions are in Saxon characters, dated in the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries : and are round the margin, commonly, of a figure in bas-relief, fnppofed to refemble the dcceafed, Thefe... | |
| 1801 - 676 pages
...writing the Life of Pocoio BRACCIOLINI, one of the moft eminent revivers of literature, who flouriflied at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. As Poggio maintained an extenfive epiftolary torrefpondence with his learned contemporaries, and as... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 pages
...century, while the earliest specimens of the Sicilian Muse which have descended to us, do not reach beyond the end of the fourteenth, and beginning of the fifteenth, centuries; and are, at the same time, rude and barbarous efforts, and afford evident testimony that the metrical art... | |
| Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1830 - 616 pages
...fypo<risucov XaTa T^V ypapijv. — Cinnami Histor. 1. vi. c. 6. p. 155, ISC. • Agincourt supposes that at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries there were some traces of a revival of painting in Greece, and that her artists were quickly following... | |
| Percy Society - 1848 - 406 pages
...an occurrence in Chaucer's time, for the " multipliers" seem to have been very busy deceiving people at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries ; and Tyrwhitt has pointed out as a curious coincidence, that an act was passed soon after the poet's death,... | |
| Percy Society - 1848 - 408 pages
...an occurrence in Chaucer's time, for the " multipliers" seem to have been very busy deceiving people at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries ; and Tyrwhitthas pointed out as a curious coincidence, that an act was passed soon after the poet's death,... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1853 - 248 pages
...an occurrence in Chaucer's time, for the " multipliers" seem to have beeu very busy deceiving people at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries; and Tyrwhitt has pointed out as a curious coincidence, that an act was passed soon after the poet's death,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...alone of the Tartar monarchies survived and became a part of the system of the modern political world. At the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, Amir Taimur, or Tamarlane, arose. Under his command a Tartar deluge broke out of the North through... | |
| Richard Sims - 1856 - 560 pages
...heater-shaped, with a straight top. Through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries they became shorter. At the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, the upper part of the sides is straight, and the shape almost square. About the end of the fifteenth... | |
| Richard Sims - 1856 - 584 pages
...heater-shaped, with a straight top. Through the , thirteenth and fourteenth centuries they became shorter. At the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, the upper part of the sides is straight, and the shape almost square. About the end of the fifteenth... | |
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