... memory serves him, occupies between five and six hundred printed quarto pages, and must therefore have filled more pages of manuscript than the number mentioned in the text, has this quatrain at the end of the volume — With one good pen I wrote... Notes and Queries - Page 3891923Full view - About this book
| James Granger - 1769 - 314 pages
...large folio with a fingle pen : With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill, A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. TOBIAS VENNER, MD See the Interregnum, Dr. BASTWICK; in complete armour, folding a Jhield "j)itb... | |
| 1791 - 406 pages
...with a fingle pen. Witji ont foie pen I writ this book, Made of я g' '--y дооГе 4ui^í A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. There were not wanting in Kjs time people, who aflerted, he was affined in thefe voluminous... | |
| 1800 - 580 pages
...folio with a fin »le pen: With one fole pen i writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill ; Л pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. JOHN GREATES. r I л HIS eminent matherftatician JL and antiquary was mailer, in a high degree,... | |
| 1800 - 586 pages
...hr^f. folio with a flngle pen : With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. JOHN GREAVES. TH IS eminent mathematician and antiquary was mailer, in a high degree, of the... | |
| Joseph Wilson (of the Inner Temple.) - 1803 - 400 pages
...large folio with a fmglt pen:— With one fole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goofe quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it (till. WILLIAM ALABASTER. This Divine, who never rofe higher in the Church than Prebend of St. Paul's,... | |
| John Dougall - 1815 - 514 pages
...exploit in these words. " With one sole pen I writ this book, " Made of a grey-goose quill ; " A pen it was when it I took, " And a pen I leave it still" Some inconsiderate and affected admirers of the wonderful Shakspcare, have asserted that he never corrected... | |
| 1816 - 782 pages
...large folio with a Bugle pen : With one fole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goofe quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it ftill. (V.) HOLLAND, a to%vn of Pruflia, in the prov. of Oberland, ftrongly fortified, feated on the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pages
...of the volume — "' * With one good pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose qnill ; '-' A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it stilL * ' . • KING JAME&— I\ i&-3. The dress of this monarch, together with his personal appearance,... | |
| Songs - 1833 - 142 pages
...large folio with a single pen. WITH one sole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goose quill; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still. TO A CRITIC, Who quoted an isolated passage, and then declared il unintelligible. MOST candid critic... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...the end of the volume — " With one good pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still. " KING JAMES P. 142-3. The dress of this monarch, together with his personal appearance, is thus described... | |
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