 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 688 pages
...him, this translation eaused equal joy in one quarter and consternation in another : — " Lictantur cceli, — quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum — flent in Kent millia centum." Among thoae with whom he quarrelled at Canterbury was 254 the famous John Wickliff, then a student... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 638 pages
...popularity, as an ecclesiastic at least, had waned — witness the contemporary pasquinade : — ' Lsetantur cceli quia Simon transit ab Ely ; Cujus in adventum flent in Kent millia centum.' He became a Cardinal, and, having accumulated vast wealth, aspired to the popedom. He resigned the... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1851 - 574 pages
...to consider the "railing hexameters" on his translation from Ely to Canterbury — LsEtentur coeli, quia Simon transit ab Ely ; Cujus in adventum flent...BUKYNGHAM. LINCOLN, ARCHDEACON OF. See J. DE STRATFORD ; W. or WTKEHAM; R. DE RAVENSER. LINCOLN, BISHOP OF. See H. DE BURGHERSH ; J. DE BUKYNGHAM. LINCOLN, DEAN... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 pages
...translation caused equal joy in one quarter and consternation in another : — " Lietantur coeli, — quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum — flent in Kent millia centum." Among those with whom he quarrelled at Canterbury was His the famous John Wickliffe, then a student... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 534 pages
...translation caused equal joy in one quarter and consternation in another : — " Lsetantur coeli, — quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum — flent in Kent millia centum." Among those with whom he quarrelled at Canterbury was the famous John WicldifFe, then a student at... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1856 - 460 pages
...translation caused equal joy in one quarter and consternation in another : — " Lsetantnr «Bli,— quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum— flent in Kent millia centum." Among those with whom he quarrelled at Canterbury was the famous John Wickliffe, then a student at... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1865 - 560 pages
...put into cirifnghTm. culation. They may be read as two hexameters, or as 1366-68. rhymes. Lsetantur cceli, quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum flent, in Kent, millia centum. Notwithstanding his duties as a statesman, we have seen that Langham did not neglect his diocese. In... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1868 - 506 pages
...retinue were proceeding to visit one of the archiepiscopal manor-houses, when the cross was * " Lsetantur cceli, quia Simon transit ab Ely. Cujus in adventum flent, in Kent, millia centum." thrown to the ground and broken. As it was shortly made almost as perfect as ever, and the bearer escaped... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1892 - 472 pages
...that he inspired little affection. An epigram on his translation to Canterbury runs : Exultent cœli, quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum flent in Kent millia centum. Nevertheless, the Monk of Ely praises him with some warmth as a discreet and prudent pastor (Anglia... | |
 | Charles Stuteville Isaacson - 1907 - 366 pages
...Langham was translated from Ely to Canterbury, two clever Latin verses were circulated : ' Laetantur cceli, quia Simon transit ab Ely, Cujus in adventum flent, in Kent, millia centum.' Which may be rendered : ' The heavens rejoice because Simon has gone from Ely, but a hundred thousand... | |
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... translated to the see of Canterbury, uniting in his own person the two offices of highest civil and ecclesiastical dignity. But if we may credit a waggish distich which was then penned upon him, this translation caused equal joy in one quarter and... 
