The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-time Literature, Volume 3Elliot Stock, 1890 - Anthologies |
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... persons object nowadays that it is a solecism to speak of advancement backwards , and I am not for splitting straws , so I say let the public , for whose benefit language was invented , use it for all the world just as it pleases ...
... persons object nowadays that it is a solecism to speak of advancement backwards , and I am not for splitting straws , so I say let the public , for whose benefit language was invented , use it for all the world just as it pleases ...
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... person or persons perfectly well known to him . He was consulted from time to time concerning them ; he received them in manu- script , suggested occasional changes , many of which were made , and , as the editor of the magazine in ...
... person or persons perfectly well known to him . He was consulted from time to time concerning them ; he received them in manu- script , suggested occasional changes , many of which were made , and , as the editor of the magazine in ...
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... persons of bibliographical tastes and know- ledge who have access to libraries in old country houses and mansions , or , indeed , any collections of old books that have lain unnoticed and unexamined , to keep their eyes open , for I ...
... persons of bibliographical tastes and know- ledge who have access to libraries in old country houses and mansions , or , indeed , any collections of old books that have lain unnoticed and unexamined , to keep their eyes open , for I ...
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... person from whom he received them . . . . The Boy's tale is simple ; he ( now ) absolutely asserts that he forged the whole collection , and gave the papers to his Father , at once to please and to deceive him - and the World . A very ...
... person from whom he received them . . . . The Boy's tale is simple ; he ( now ) absolutely asserts that he forged the whole collection , and gave the papers to his Father , at once to please and to deceive him - and the World . A very ...
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... person in his employ , however , informed his master that the previous evening M. P— , a customer of the firm , had asked him if he knew a M. Dechaux , a bookbroker , whom he had seen prying in the section of the shop reserved for ...
... person in his employ , however , informed his master that the previous evening M. P— , a customer of the firm , had asked him if he knew a M. Dechaux , a bookbroker , whom he had seen prying in the section of the shop reserved for ...
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Page 28 - The Man in the Moon Discovering a world of knavery under the Sunne Both in Parliament the Counsell of State, the Army, the City, and the Country.
Page 210 - Tis pity learned virgins ever wed With persons of no sort of education, Or gentlemen, who, though well born and bred, Grow tired of scientific conversation : I don't choose to say much upon this head, I'ma plain man, and in a single station, But — Oh ! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
Page 286 - ANGELS have talked with him, and showed him thrones : Ye knew him not ; he was not one of ye, Ye scorned him with an undiscerning scorn : Ye could not read the marvel in his eye, The still serene abstraction : he hath felt The vanities of after and before ; Albeit, his spirit and his secret heart The...
Page 131 - Magazine, a periodical pamphlet, of which the scheme is known wherever the English language is spoken. To this undertaking he owed the affluence in which he passed the last twenty years of his life, and the fortune which he left behind him, which, though large, had been yet larger, had lie not rashly and wantonly impaired it by innumerable projects, of which I know not that ever one succeeded. The Gentleman's Magazine...
Page 155 - They will remember the peculiar character which belonged to that circle, in which every talent and accomplishment, every art and science, had its place. They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner, and the last comedy of Scribe in another; while Wilkie gazed with modest admiration on...
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