...ber 5Dlenfфen", S. 314. l70 „There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross1) over, And swore, the world as he could prove Was made...fighting and of love, Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles?" 9hm finben roir aber in bem SBalten ber ftampf= triebe einen...

...considerable noise and figure in his time. He is the author to whom Butler alludes in his Hudibras : " There was an ancient sage philosopher. That had read Alexander Ross over." His Arcana Microcosmi contains many singular and quaint stories. 1201 Rowzee (Lodwick). The Queens...

...considerable amount of verse. He is now remembered best by Butler's couplet (Hudibras, pt. i. canto ii.) : There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over. In the preface to the ' History of the World,' Ross said that, from his youth up, he had been ' more...

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...one of the most voluminous writers on record, and he is immortalized in the couplet in "Hudibras":— "There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over." In the realm of poetry his Virgili Evangelisanus excited wide interest in his day, and, later Lauder...

...Alexander Ross (1590-1654), vicar of Carisbrooke and miscellaneons writer. His life is in J>. A'. B. ' There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over.' (Hudibras, I. ii. I, a.) 1 The Bodleian has a copy of the following book : Elegantix Poeticse in Locos...

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