We do not cast an English professor out of his chair, because he announces that there are two manuscripts of Layamon's Brut, and that the text of Beówulf has been many times worked over, before we have received it in its present form.

Unfortunately, he did not digest fully the arguments of the manuscript in his hand, and instead of a first-hand knowledge of Minturno and Scaliger had only the commonplaces of Plutarch.

He died in 1836, and four years later the government purchased the manuscript from his widow.

Exhibition of manuscripts to a leading literary light merely evoked curt advice to learn a trade or go into business.

In editing this manuscript for modern readers I have therefore been compelled to practically rewrite it entirely, retaining merely the essential facts, with an occasional descriptive passage, although I have conscientiously followed the original development of the tale.

Can you not send your manuscript by the Coach? directed to Chase Side, next to Mr. Westwood's Insurance office.

I have left some of the manuscripts with the publisher of this work, for the gratification of the public curiosity.

From the eighth century until Poggio discovered the complete manuscript at St. Gall in 1416, the world knew only mutilated fragments of the text.

But his earlier style, that of the Fragment on Government, Plan of a Judicial Establishment, etc., is a model of liveliness and ease combined with fulness of matter, scarcely ever surpassed: and of this earlier style there were many striking specimens in the manuscripts on Evidence, all of which I endeavoured to preserve.

If, as is possible, the poem was circulated in manuscript before its publication, this intended insult may be the injury complained of by Mrs. Haywood in "Memoirs of a Certain Island."

He laughed and shoved his manuscript into the desk.

With an agreeable public manner the lady erected herself at one corner of a square piano, placed her manuscripts under the shaded lamp, and began.

Those he wrote for the Marchioness were distributed in manuscript among his private friends, and found their way into the first edition of his collected poems.

The truth is, that Strada, who had access to no other manuscripts than those in possession of the Farnese family, never saw the "Samanca papers"; and Robertson, far from following Strada exclusively, relied much more on the authority of Sandoval and other Spanish writers.

The pointing I consider a matter to be dealt with as any one pleasesfor the sake of sense, of more sense, of better sense, as much as if the text were a Greek manuscript without any division of words.

This Tollan is certainly none other than the abode of Quetzalcoatl, named in an Aztec manuscript as Zivena vitzcatl, a word of uncertain derivation, but applied to the highest heaven.

Then Tonnison asked me to get the manuscript out of my satchel.

My departure on a Naval mission early in 1919 prevented me, however, from putting the finishing touches to the manuscript until my return this spring.

I place it in these fair hands, an impromptu wedding-song, if you will accept it!" He held out the neatly written manuscript toward Eugenie, but the Count anticipated her, and quickly taking it himself, said: "Have patience a moment longer, my dear!"

What they can do is to read your manuscript during their leisure moments.

As to my father, there is in his desk a yellow manuscript about Triplicity in Nature.

The effect of this work, as Vasari tells us, on his eyesight was so injurious, that, for some time after its completion, he could only read by placing the book or manuscript above his head and looking up.[420] I' HO GIÀ FATTO UN GOZZO

I am not brave to-night, with that four-times-rejected manuscript within reach of my hand.

Such an assumption involves time, and I think it is a safe proposition to assert that, in order to bring the text of Marcion's Gospel into the state in which we find it, there must have been a long previous history, and the manuscripts through which it was conveyed must have parted far from the parent stem.