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... beautiful drawings , others of col ored engravings , and others still of the best speci- mens of engraving executed within the last fifty years the collector could possess himself of . There is a collection of one hundred and twenty ...
... beautiful drawings , others of col ored engravings , and others still of the best speci- mens of engraving executed within the last fifty years the collector could possess himself of . There is a collection of one hundred and twenty ...
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... beautiful and valuable . The collection of Bibles , Testaments and Psalms , is large ; among them is a Bible in man- uscript on vellum , of the fourteenth century ; the Vulgate , printed in 1493 ; the English Breeches Bible , as it was ...
... beautiful and valuable . The collection of Bibles , Testaments and Psalms , is large ; among them is a Bible in man- uscript on vellum , of the fourteenth century ; the Vulgate , printed in 1493 ; the English Breeches Bible , as it was ...
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... of the Lock contains a beautiful draw- ing by Lady Susan North , daughter of the Earl of Guildford , and a pupil of Fuseli's . It was drawn by Lady North especially for this work , as an expression MR . ALLAN'S COLLECTION . 13.
... of the Lock contains a beautiful draw- ing by Lady Susan North , daughter of the Earl of Guildford , and a pupil of Fuseli's . It was drawn by Lady North especially for this work , as an expression MR . ALLAN'S COLLECTION . 13.
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... beautiful quarto edition in five volumes . It was presented to its possessor by the late Bishop Wainwright , and is probably the only set in this country . Among the Elzevirs are Livy , Vitruvius , Plautus and Curtius ; and from the ...
... beautiful quarto edition in five volumes . It was presented to its possessor by the late Bishop Wainwright , and is probably the only set in this country . Among the Elzevirs are Livy , Vitruvius , Plautus and Curtius ; and from the ...
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... beautiful little 18mos . in vellum , are the very beau ideal of pocket editions . In this connection may be mentioned the Collectio Poetarum Latinorum , in 6 vols . , 4to . , containing the Christian as well as the Heathen poets ; and ...
... beautiful little 18mos . in vellum , are the very beau ideal of pocket editions . In this connection may be mentioned the Collectio Poetarum Latinorum , in 6 vols . , 4to . , containing the Christian as well as the Heathen poets ; and ...
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Page 354 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 311 - He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to Brotherstone. He went not with the bold Buccleuch, His banner broad to rear; He went not 'gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack...
Page 77 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 83 - And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio. Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London ProdigalL The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Page 249 - Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year, 1677.
Page 78 - The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous | Houses, LANCASTER and | YORKE. | With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, | and King Henrie the \ sixt. \ Diuided into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for TP...
Page 32 - I was passionately fond as a boy (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ; indeed that and the ' Medea' were the only ones, except the ' Seven before Thebes,
Page 429 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 108 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page 2 - a passion for possessing books; not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them. He who is affected by this mania knows books only by their titles and dates, and is rather seduced by the exterior than the interior.