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...welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed by Caxton, spoken by Spencer and Milton, has, in a modified form and with an artificial pronunciation, given us the literary English of the present...
These three acts, together with those by the Cameron sisters, Caxton and Company, and several others, do much to furnish a program as interesting as it is light...
...Peter Schoeffer, three or four from that of Mentelin at Strasburg, the representatives of those of Ulrich Zell, Arnold Terhoernen and Bartholomaeus de Unket at Cologne, Zainer and Sorg at Augsburg, Creussmer and Koburger at Nuremberg, of Bartolomeo di Cremona, Ratdolf, John of Cologne and Scotus at Venice, of Caxton and Wynkyn de Norde and Pynson and Berthelet in England and of many other famous presses throughout Europe. Especially represented among these early books are those which throw light upon the development of natural science. Such are the editions of Aristotle, Pliny, Ptolemy and Albertus Magnus; oracular compends of Isidore...
...deterre by some scholar, and that the Sunderland copy if it is really the work I am speaking of, may find its way into an American Library. The edition of 1644 is the editio princeps, and it has never been reprinted. It ought to command the price of a Caxton...
...well paneled with old oak and contains some good pictures by old masters, mostly portraits.-Opposite the hall and just above the cloisters is the library, rich in books and manuscripts, among its most valuable treasures is a manuscript of St. Chrysostom in Greek and some works printed by Caxton. Descending one reaches the cloisters built about the great quadrangle and generally considered the most beautiful portion of the college. The cloister-green with its close-cut grass sets off admirably the moss grown walls which surround it, and is a little bit of nature among the gray time-eaten...