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In Foster's "Alumni Oxonienses", Oscar Wilde described himself on leaving Oxford as a "Professor of aesthetics, and a Critic of Art" an announcement to me at once infinitely ludicrous and pathetic.
William Cole, the writer of fifty volumes in MS. of the Athenae Cantabrigienses, founded upon the same principle as the Athenae Oxonienses of Anthony Wood, lived to see his hopes of fame die, and yet to feel that he could not abandon his self- imposed task, as that would be death to him.
In his Athenae Oxonienses he had written the lives of all his enemies. Wood, "being a mere scholar," could, of course, expect nothing but disrespect in a place like Oxford. His younger contemporary, Humphrey Prideaux, was, in the Oxford manner, a man of the world.
As Anthony Wood says , "By the writings of Shakespear and others of his time, the English tongue was exceedingly enriched, and made quite another thing than what it was before." His versification on these occasions has a melody, a ripeness and variety that no other pen has reached. Athenae Oxonienses, vol. i. p. 592. Yet there were things that Shakespear could not do. He could not make a hero.
Letter to sir Kenelm Digby, prefixed to the Religio Medici, fol. edit. Digby's Letter to Browne, prefixed to the Religio Medici, fol. edit. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Merryweather's letter, inserted in the Life of sir Thomas Browne. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. Wood. Whitefoot. Howell's Letters. Religio Medici. Life of sir Thomas Browne.
First printed in the Literary Magazine for 1756. Christian Morals, first printed in 1756. Life of sir Thomas Browne, prefixed to the Antiquities of Norwich. Whitefoot's character of sir Thomas Browne, in a marginal note. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses. Wood. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Biographia Britannica.
When Sir Thomas Browne, in the last decade of his life, was asked to furnish data for the writing of his memoirs in Wood's 'Athenæ Oxonienses, he gave in a letter to his friend Mr.
It is recorded by Anthony á Wood in his "Athenæ Oxonienses," acknowledged by Samuel Daniel in the commendatory verses prefixed to Florio's "World of Words," and she is affectionately remembered in Florio's will as his "beloved wife, Rose." Thus, if not Spenser's Rosalinde, she was undoubtedly a Rosalinde to John Florio.
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