 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 800 pages
...London came ; To merry London, my moft kindly nutfe, That to me gave this lifes firft native fource : Though from another place I take my name', AN HOUSE OF ANCIENT FAME. This houfe of ancient fame, hints at his defcent from the Spenfers of Althorp in Northamptonfhire,... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pages
...the Prothalamion, already cited, while he intimates that London was his birth-place, he adds, — " Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame." By taking bis name he must be supposed to mean taking it by descent or connexion ; the mere identity... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pages
...the Prothalamion, already cited, while he intimates that London was his birth-place, he adds,— " Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame." IJy taking his name he must be supposed to mean taking it by descent or connexion ; the mere identity... | |
 | Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...the Prothalamion, already cited, while he intimates that London was his birth-place, he adds, — " Though from another place I take my name," An house of ancient fame." ' By taking his name he must be supposed to mean taking it by descent or connexion ; the mere identity... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1847 - 426 pages
...He says : — " Merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame." Next to his Faery Queen, I should most desire to see the English Poct, and the Divine Pocms : for that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...hie poetry : — Merry London, my moat kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, e saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws Prothabimion. He was born at East Smithfleld, near the Tower, Edmund Speiuer. »bout the year 1553.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 626 pages
...London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame. It is commonly said, on the authority of Oldys, that he was born in East Smithfield by the Tower. It... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame : The which on Thames broad aged back do ride, There when they came whereas those bricky towers Where... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame. It is commonly said, on the authority of Oldys, that he was bom in East Smithfield by the Tower. It... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame. It is commonly said, on the authority of Oldys, that he was born in East Smithfield by the Tower. It... | |
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At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name. An house of ancient fame: There when they came whereas those bricky towers The which... 
