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... hundred and twenty - five volumes , many of which are illustrated and bound in the very best style of the art . Among these is a copy of Campbell's Pleasures of Hope , Pope's Rape of the Lock , and Cowper's Task , inserted in sheets ...
... hundred and twenty - five volumes , many of which are illustrated and bound in the very best style of the art . Among these is a copy of Campbell's Pleasures of Hope , Pope's Rape of the Lock , and Cowper's Task , inserted in sheets ...
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... hundred and eleven engravings , many of which are excellent impressions , and some from private plates . This copy , which is in two volumes , belonged to and was illustrated under the superintendence of Mr. William Turner , of ...
... hundred and eleven engravings , many of which are excellent impressions , and some from private plates . This copy , which is in two volumes , belonged to and was illustrated under the superintendence of Mr. William Turner , of ...
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... hundred and fifty dollars . Upon the dispersion of this collection , it fell into the hands of its present owner . All of the works enumerated as illustrated are unique , and contain inserted engravings , or engrav- ings and autograph ...
... hundred and fifty dollars . Upon the dispersion of this collection , it fell into the hands of its present owner . All of the works enumerated as illustrated are unique , and contain inserted engravings , or engrav- ings and autograph ...
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... hundred volumes , some of which are works of much merit . Among these are the Cabinet de Choiseul , Cabinet de Poullain , Livia Doria Car- affa , Chinese Illustrations , Albert Durer's Designs , and Gubitz's Etchings on Wood , and a ...
... hundred volumes , some of which are works of much merit . Among these are the Cabinet de Choiseul , Cabinet de Poullain , Livia Doria Car- affa , Chinese Illustrations , Albert Durer's Designs , and Gubitz's Etchings on Wood , and a ...
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... hundred vol- umes of Scrap Books made up of drawings , some of which are of much merit . Of these books some consist entirely of beautiful drawings , others of col ored engravings , and others still of the best speci- mens of engraving ...
... hundred vol- umes of Scrap Books made up of drawings , some of which are of much merit . Of these books some consist entirely of beautiful drawings , others of col ored engravings , and others still of the best speci- mens of engraving ...
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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.