 | Jean Froissart, William Harrison, Thomas Malory - 1910 - 420 pagine
...reputation amongst them said after this manner—-" These English (quoth he) have their houses 308 made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king." Whereby it appeareth that he liked better of our good fare in such coarse cabins than of their own... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1911 - 478 pagine
...is unthinkable. " These English," reported the Spaniards who visited the country with Philip II, " have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as well as the king." The body rather than the spirit held supremacy then. Not until the reign of Henry... | |
 | Richard Henry Tawney - 1912 - 506 pagine
...Harrison in Elizabethan England (Withington), p. 114, quoting one of "the Spaniards in Queen Mary's days." "These English have their houses made of sticks and...dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king." and such meat as the butcher selleth. That is to say, mutton, veal, lamb, pork. In feasting also the... | |
 | Katharine Frances Doughty - 1912 - 410 pagine
...in many of these so homely cottages. These English, quoth one of no small reputation amongst them, have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the King, whereby it appeareth that he liked better of our good fare in such coarse cabins, than of their own... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee, Charles Talbut Onions - 1916 - 724 pagine
...was more comfort than show in the old style, so that the Spaniard of Queen Mary's time remarked, ' These English have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as well as the King'. With the increase of wealth, houses in the country were enlarged and made more... | |
 | Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, George Bagshawe Harrison - 1923 - 140 pagine
...remarked also upon the prodigality of English diet : ' these Englishmen ', said a Spanish. ambassador, ' have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as well as the king'; and Englishmen travelling abroad congratulate themselves that they are better... | |
 | Joseph Jackson - 1924 - 250 pagine
...insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner — 'These English (quoth he) have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.' . . . In like sort as every country house is thus apparaled on the outside, so is it inwardly divided... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1925 - 622 pagine
...While Harrison in his ' Description of Britain ' 20 quotes a Spaniard in Queen Mary's day as saying ' These English have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as well as the king.' In modern times the only state of affairs which could be compared with events... | |
 | Peter Brimacombe - 2004 - 104 pagine
...pleasant fruit and princely délicates.' Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe THE TUDORS LOVED eating. 'These English have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly well as the king,' noted a bemused Spaniard. Henry VIII had a massive appetite, as, it seems, did many... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1913 - 334 pagine
...that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner — 'These English,' quoth he, 'have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.' Whereby it appeareth that he liked better of our good fare in such coarse cabins than of their own... | |
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Mary's days to wonder; but chiefly when they saw that large diet was used in many of these so homely cottages, insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner: These English, quoth he, have their houses made of sticks and... 
