Ascham

Cited as Ascham. — 21 quotations

Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study.

Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men.

Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.

The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.

There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.

After the first declining of a noun and a verb.

Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.

By experience of life abroad in the world.

A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others.

He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.

The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius.

Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third.

Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly.

I saw, I say, come out of London, even unto the presence of the prince, a great rabble of mean and light persons.

A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head.

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.

Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.

A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.

Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.

A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike.

She answered me, “I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato.”