Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton; Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton [Editor]: The art of needle-work from the earliest ages: including some notices of the ancient historical tapestries (London: Henry Colburn Publishers, 1841)

300 THE DAYS OF “ GOOD QUEEN BESS?’
high cultivation of later days, it is the province of
the metaphysician and philosopher to analyse; and
even the lighter characteristics of the time have
become so familiar through the medium of many
modern and valuable works, that we have ventured
only to touch very superficially on some few of the
more prominent of them.