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... popularity here , that an English translation of it ( by Mr. Aikin ) was published in two quarto volumes within nine months of the appearance of the original work . This English version exhibits a better order in the text , and has some ...
... popularity here , that an English translation of it ( by Mr. Aikin ) was published in two quarto volumes within nine months of the appearance of the original work . This English version exhibits a better order in the text , and has some ...
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... popular measure , he was enabled to replenish his purse , and thereby to set out , with renewed alacrity , on other similar enterprises : and he is now , peradventure , busied in the discovery of yet more extraordinary remains . His ...
... popular measure , he was enabled to replenish his purse , and thereby to set out , with renewed alacrity , on other similar enterprises : and he is now , peradventure , busied in the discovery of yet more extraordinary remains . His ...
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... popular . The extensive information and scrupulous fidelity of these volumes , render them safe inmates of a well chosen collection . Messrs . Arch mark a copy at the reason- able price of 21. 5s . Fly , Fleance , fly " . 66 to secure ...
... popular . The extensive information and scrupulous fidelity of these volumes , render them safe inmates of a well chosen collection . Messrs . Arch mark a copy at the reason- able price of 21. 5s . Fly , Fleance , fly " . 66 to secure ...
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... now RESTS IN PEACE : an example ( if ten thousand others were wanting ) of the short - lived popularity of " things mundane . " the last named work be not all that is absolutely 476 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS . [ N. AMERICA .
... now RESTS IN PEACE : an example ( if ten thousand others were wanting ) of the short - lived popularity of " things mundane . " the last named work be not all that is absolutely 476 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS . [ N. AMERICA .
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... popular cast than an exclusive history of a distant country , about which curiosity had not been so general with us ... popularity of this great , and perhaps " maximum opus , " of its author , be slow , it will be sure . Every ...
... popular cast than an exclusive history of a distant country , about which curiosity had not been so general with us ... popularity of this great , and perhaps " maximum opus , " of its author , be slow , it will be sure . Every ...
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Page 514 - LODGE'S Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs. 240 Portraits engraved on Steel, with the respective Biographies unabridged. 8 vols. 5*. each. LONGFELLOW'S Prose Works. With 16 full -page Wood Engravings. 5*. LOUDON'S (Mrs.) Natural History. Revised edition, by WS Dallas, FLS With numerous Woodcut Illus. $s. LOWNDES...
Page 773 - The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Page 671 - ... For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past, For in your sweet dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more...
Page 541 - hard by the imperial table at the feast of the golden fleece/ watched with wonder the emperor's progress through ' sod beef, roast mutton, baked hare,' after which ' he fed well of a capon ;' drinking also, says the fellow of St. John's, 'the best that ever I saw;' he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of them, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine.* " Eating was now the only physical gratification which he could still enjoy, or was unable to resist.
Page 669 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 766 - THE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Page 524 - Yet delighted not men so much in her beauty, as in her pleasant behaviour. . For a proper wit had she, and could both read well and write ; merry in company, ready and quick of answer, neither mute nor full of babble, sometimes taunting without displeasure and not without disport.
Page 758 - The True Tragedie of Richard the third : Wherein is showne the death of Edward the fourth, with the smothering of the two yoong Princes in the Tower : With a lamentable ende of Shore's wife, an example for all wicked women.
Page 654 - But in many instances he redeems the antiquity of his allusions by their ingenious adaptation to modern manners; and this is but a small part of his praise ; for in the point and volubility and vigour of Hall's numbers we might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden.* This may be exemplified in the harmony and picturesqueness of the following description of a magnificent rural mansion, which the traveller approaches in the hopes of reaching the seat of ancient hospitality, but finds it deserted...
Page 660 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.