 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 714 pages
...letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., except a few, that extend as far as Henry VII., by different members of a wealthy and respectable, but not noble,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1843 - 628 pages
...letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward...pictures of the life of the English gentry in that age.t We are merely concerned with their evidence as to the state of literature. And this upon the... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1854 - 630 pages
...letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward...pictures of the life of the English gentry in that age.1 We are merely concerned with their evidence as to the state of literature. And this upon the... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - Antiquarian booksellers - 1868 - 840 pages
...private letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect any that have been published. They were all written in the reigns of Henry VI, and Edward IV, except a few us late «s Henry VII, by different members of a wealthy and respectable, but not noble family : and... | |
 | Henry Hallam - European literature - 1856 - 422 pages
...published. They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., except a few, that extend as far as Henry VII., by different members of a wealthy and respectable, but not noble family ; and arc, therefore, pictures of the life of the English gentry in that âge. t We are merely concerned... | |
 | Jane Williams - Authors - 1861 - 580 pages
...correspondence. Treating of the period 1440 to 1500, Mr. Hallam says of the Paston Letters : — " They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward...members of a wealthy and respectable, but not noble, English family ; and are, therefore, pictures of the life of the English gentry in that age. We are... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1864 - 524 pages
...letters equally ancient may be concealed, 1 do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward...pictures of the life of the English gentry in that age.' AVe are merely concerned with their evidence as to the state of literature. And this upon the whole... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1866 - 884 pages
...letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., except i ! •• i-tli'n Ufe of Wykeham. He per- thnr of these line», it i« nH, name yeui mite ia his rtatutea... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch - Books - 1868 - 1152 pages
...letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect any that have been published. They were nil written in the reigns of Henry VI, and Edward IV,...wealthy and respectable, but not noble family : and arc, 1'ierefore, pictures of the life of the English . gentiy in that age." — Ilallam. of the old... | |
 | James Gairdner - Great Britain - 1875 - 712 pages
...are all written in the reigns of HENKY VI. and EDWAKD IV., except a few, that extend as far as HENKY VII., by different members of a wealthy and respectable,...therefore, pictures of the life of the English gentry of that age. — Introduction to the Literatttre of Europe, i. 228, Ed. 1837. A Chronological Table... | |
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Europe ; for though it is highly probable that in the archives of Italian families, if not in France or Germany, a series of merely private letters equally ancient may be concealed ; I do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written... 
