| Pickering & Chatto - 1659 - 104 pages
...verses addressed to him on their publication. 1222 Poly-Olbion; or, A CHOROGRAPHICALL DESCRIPTION OF TRACTS, RIVERS, MOUNTAINS, FORESTS, and other parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, with Intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures,... | |
| Ellis (Firm) - 1728 - 114 pages
...of Wales, to whom the work is dedicated. The second part did not appear till 1622. .29 DRAYTON. — [Polyolbion.] A Chorographicall Description of all...other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain. With intermixture of the most Remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, and Commodities... | |
| Dawson, William, & Sons, of London - 1809 - 344 pages
...12s. 6d. or new calf gilt, marbled leaves, 17s. 6d. 1861 1933 DRAYTON'S POLY-OLBION, a Chorographical Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains,...other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable STORIES, ANTIQUITIES, WONDERS, RARITIES, PLEASURES, and Commodities... | |
| 1830 - 1112 pages
...most curious and elaborate production was first published with the title /VvAlition, a chorographical description of all the tracts, rivers, mountains,...other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britain : a poem, in two pans; folio, London, 1612. The medicinal properties ascribed to the Misseltoe were... | |
| John Aubrey - 1857 - 296 pages
...Popular Amusements. Drayton's (Michael) Poly Olbion, in 30 Songs, complete, being a Choragraphical Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains,...other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders and Earities, Pleasures and... | |
| George Wither - 1857 - 536 pages
...; Popular Amusements. rayton's (Michael) Poly Olbion, in 30 Songs, complete, being a Choragraphical Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains,...other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders and Barities, Pleasures and... | |
| Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset - 1859 - 280 pages
...Popular Amusements. Drayton's (Michael) Poly Olbion, in 30 Songs, complete, being a Choragraphical Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains,...other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders and Parities, Pleasures and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 pages
...Drayton gives delightful descriptions of birds and of fishes, to say nothing of the descriptions of ' tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain.' And tell me this, too. Do you agree that for melody pitffi and simple there is no English poet that... | |
| Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 290 pages
...Eleventh, p. 171. The full title of this famous old poem, first published in 1622, is, "A Chorographical Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains,...other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain; with intermixture of the most Remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, and Commodities... | |
| National Art Library (Great Britain) - 1870 - 1042 pages
...poem. With genealogical tree. 4to. London, by James Roberts, for TN, 1603. BM DRAYTON (MICHAEL).— A chorographicall description of all the tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of Great Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, etc. of the... | |
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