 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 1036 pages
...and at Winchester. He was the author of several works on various subjects ; and Wood says that " he was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician." EAST BOURNE, which has of late years become a fashionable bathing-place, is situated near the foot... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1814 - 692 pages
...medicine anil astronomy. He is known to posterity as u buffoon, not as a philosopher." Wood remarks he " was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person and an excellent physician." He died April 1549. §See Briiish Bibl. vol. ii. p. 67,8. || Wonderfiil Magazine. 5f Same as used tor... | |
 | William Davis - Bibliomania - 1821 - 776 pages
...scandalons stories, to the discredit of the Doctor's continence — for which see Athenas Oxonien.ii.t. " But letting these matters pass, I cannot otherwise...Borde was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and Ingenious pcrsbn, and an excellent Physician of his time ; and that he is1 reported by some to have been, not... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 888 pages
...life in the Fleet prison, where he died in the year 1549. As to his character, Wood says that " he o 3 ز } sg ر /_ d ~ n ņ' M P : [ } տ |{ ʙ > o kj ?ߛ d Pits calls him a man of sufficient learning, but too volatile and inconstant. Bale and some others,... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...April 1549; his will being dated the llth and proved the 25th of that month. Wood Athense Oxon. says, that our author, Borde, was esteemed a noted poet,...ingenious person, and an excellent physician of his time. See Gent. Mag. vol. lix. p. 7. WILLIAM BUTTS ; in Harding s Shakspeare, after Holbein. WN Gardiner... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 488 pages
...abroad into various parts of Europe, which he visited in the medical character *. Wood says, that he was " esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician." Hearne, who has plainly discovered the origin of Tom Thumb, is of opinion, that this facetious practitioner... | |
 | John Holmes - English literature - 1828 - 332 pages
...France, and afterwards at Oxford. Dr. Boorde was a singular character, both in habits and opinions, but was esteemed a noted Poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent Physician, in which profession he served King Henry the VIII. and was a Member of the College.— He wrote many... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...notwithstanding which, he had the misfortune to end his life in the Fleet prison, in 1549. Wood says, ' he was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician.' Pitts calls him a man of sufficient learning, but too volatile. His writings are, 1 . A Book of the... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...of Africa. On his return to England he received the degree of MD and " was esteemed," says Wood, " a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician;" his practice, however, would be deemed rather irregular in the present day, as he is said to have frequented... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - English fiction - 1837 - 450 pages
...poisoned himself; and other? tell us that he was not incarcerated for debt: — Wood, however, calls him "a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician.". This little digression, for which I duly apologize, just brings our hero to the door of the " Hotel"... | |
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I cannot otherwise but say that our author Borde was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician of his time. 
