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It is one of the four Old English Poetic Codices from which the bulk of surviving Old English poetry comes, all of which can be classed as miscellanies. The Lacnunga is a 10th or 11th century miscellany in Old English, Latin and Old Irish, with health-related texts taking a wide range of approaches, from herbal medicine and other medical ...
Articles relating to miscellanies, collections of various pieces of writing by different authors.Meaning a mixture, medley, or assortment, a miscellany can include pieces on many subjects and in a variety of different forms.
Stromata, including English translation of Book 3 – The Gnostic Society Library (Due to sexual content, Book 3 is provided only in Latin in the classic Ante-Nicene Fathers edition) Clement of Alexandria: Stromata, Book 1 – Early Christian Writings; English translation of Stromateis at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
A note in Miscellanies by Thackeray, dated 10 April 1857, describes it as "only the first part" of a longer story which was "interrupted at a sad period of the writer's own life" and never subsequently completed. He also describes it as being written "seventeen years ago", therefore c. 1840.
After taking the Grand Tour of the Alps he published his comments in a journal letter published as Miscellanies in 1693, giving an account of crossing the Alps where, contrary to his prior feelings for the beauty of nature as a "delight that is consistent with reason", the experience of the journey was at once a "pleasure to the eye as music is ...
Her "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by the Honourable Lady Margaret Pennyman" was published in 1739 [4] by Edmund Curll noting she had died penniless. [3] Edmund Curll is not a very reliable source. She had died on 16 June 1733 and she had been buried by her brother in the church where she was baptised. [2]
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey is generously represented in the miscellany, and credited with creating the English (or Shakespearean) form of sonnet. Richard Tottel was an English publisher with a shop at Temple Bar on Fleet Street in London. His main business was the publication of law textbooks but his biggest contribution to English literature ...
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, published in 1766 as a quarto edition by Thomas Davies with Johnson adding a preface and several prose and verse pieces. First advertised in 1750, there were waspish claims from Anna's friends that Johnson had not put himself out in getting it produced, though it was moderately successful and earned the author ...