Lexicographical Neighbors of Masquers
Literary usage of Masquers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1907)
"... plates in the volume of the doings of the Emperor Maximilian, and shows maces
of a general form borne by masquers at a grand state T' HEFT AN' BLADES o' ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"After the horsemen came the anti-masquers, and, as the horsemen had their
music—about a dozen of the best trumpeters proper for them, ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1905)
"... THE ENTRY OF THE masquers. [From The Fortunate Isles and their Union, 1625.]
Spring all the graces of the age, And all the loves of time ; Bring all the ..."
4. The English Poets by Matthew Arnold (1882)
"SONG BEFORE THE ENTRY OF THE masquers. [From Tht Fortunate Isles and their Union,
1635.] Spring all the graces of the age, And all the loves of time ; Bring ..."
5. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... first that was discovered was a prospective of Whitehall, with the Banqueting
House; the second was the masquers in a cloud; and the third a forrest. ..."
6. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... interspersed with dances of masquers :— What noise, what strife, what earthquake
and alarms, As troubled Nature for her maker fear'd, Up, ..."
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