Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . is the well known Helius Eobanus Hessus. I select portions only of such partsas may seem to illustrate the above text of the Chronicler: eadem tibi Norica berga Caussa fuit ualidis circumdare moenibus urbemEt fossas turresque, et propugnacula murisAddere, nam triplici muro es circumdata, quonimTurribus interior stat firma mole ducentisTerribilis, spacio se inter distantibus inter mediumque mtersitus agger arenaPerpetuo tractu circum, subit alta patensqueFossa ter undenis pedibus, qua
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . is the well known Helius Eobanus Hessus. I select portions only of such partsas may seem to illustrate the above text of the Chronicler: eadem tibi Norica berga Caussa fuit ualidis circumdare moenibus urbemEt fossas turresque, et propugnacula murisAddere, nam triplici muro es circumdata, quonimTurribus interior stat firma mole ducentisTerribilis, spacio se inter distantibus inter mediumque mtersitus agger arenaPerpetuo tractu circum, subit alta patensqueFossa ter undenis pedibus, quam flexibus ingensTertius aetemo claudit munimine hue aliquis ueteris mihi moenia ThebesPortarum numero falsis infamia scriptis,Et liceat falso portarum nomine turresSicut Meonidaj nobis quoque dicere, duploVincimus, et nullo tegimus mendacia noua nunc dicam surgentia moenia: quantae Nuremberg; 1493.] CHRONICLE. 263 The artist who designed the View of Nuremberg, just mentioned,has not failed to enrich his foreground by introducing the sacredRELICS before described, thus :. Accrescant ueteri moles, quae robora muro rMagnorum uideas dicas opera esse GigantumCyclopum fabricata manu, ueteresque putabiaHie iterum muris circumdare uelle loquar aaquatas ualles niontesque alio tumulos. ne mcEnibus urbi*Obstarent, damnoque foreiit, si perfidus hostisOccupet, ac tumulis protectior incubet fieri diuina uetet dementia, et ipsosHac hostes potius coodemnet clade malorum. c[i] fiierant, quae nunc quoque nota supersunt,Carole magne tua, & nostrorum insignia Regum,De cruce saluifica, & quae Christi exangue peremptiTransijt hasta latus, non aspemanda profectoNumera, sed ueneranda etiam, si sola uetustasCommendet meritorum baud immemor, aut male edam cultus nimio obseruentur honore,Sicut adorantum. f ij recto, A little further, Hessus celebrates the Officince Ferrarut in the city of Nuremberg; and hasc
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