Citations:præscious
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- 1737, Jabez Hughes, Miscellamies in Verse and Prose, John Watts; page #108:
- Below, the Prophets præſcious Rage
- Foretold th’ amazing Birth, and ſung in myſtic Page.
- 1837, Joseph Hall in The Works of Joseph Hall, D. A. Talboys; Volume VII of XII, Chapter II, § II, page #72:
- No man ever could be a more fit instance, than that honour of Rotterdam, traduced beyond example by the malicious cowl of his age : amongst whom, John Standish, a Minorite, impudently calumniates him to the King and Queen of England, as one, that denied the Resurrection z ; others, that he had blasphemed all Christ’s miracles, as done by magic : since which time, our modern Pontificians, and Bellarmin a amongst the rest, can brand him as a friend to Arianism ; and a patron of that Anabaptistical fancy of the unlawfulness of war ; which yet himself as præscious of so unjust imputation, prevents and confutes in an Epistle to Paulus Voltzius b.
- 1909, translation by John Dryden, Virgil’s Æneid, P. F. Collier & Son Company; Book XI, page #366:
- Thrice happy thou, dear partner of my bed,
- Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled,
- Præscious of ills, and leaving me behind,
- To drink the dregs of life by fate assign’d !