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... rare copy ; and Wither's Emblems , containing a valuable portrait of the author , by Payne , and a frontispiece by Marshall , one of the best engravers of his day , for a copy of whose likeness of Lord Stirling , £ 50 were given ; also ...
... rare copy ; and Wither's Emblems , containing a valuable portrait of the author , by Payne , and a frontispiece by Marshall , one of the best engravers of his day , for a copy of whose likeness of Lord Stirling , £ 50 were given ; also ...
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... rare that there are probably not more than five or six copies in the whole country ; Whetstone's " Eng- lish Myrror " in black letter , beautifully bound , published at London in 1586 , and very rare ; Trac- tatus Verborum , a small ...
... rare that there are probably not more than five or six copies in the whole country ; Whetstone's " Eng- lish Myrror " in black letter , beautifully bound , published at London in 1586 , and very rare ; Trac- tatus Verborum , a small ...
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... rare , and yet the possessor has war- rant for this in venerable and high authority . Thus Pope assigns to " Pembroke , statues , dirty gods and coins ; Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone ; And books to Mead , and butterflies to ...
... rare , and yet the possessor has war- rant for this in venerable and high authority . Thus Pope assigns to " Pembroke , statues , dirty gods and coins ; Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone ; And books to Mead , and butterflies to ...
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... rare and valuable , namely , the Augusteum of Bekker , with engravings of the exquisite works of art in the Dresden collec- tion ; the splendidly illustrated Antichita d'Ercolano in nine folio volumes ; Banier's Ovid in two volumes ...
... rare and valuable , namely , the Augusteum of Bekker , with engravings of the exquisite works of art in the Dresden collec- tion ; the splendidly illustrated Antichita d'Ercolano in nine folio volumes ; Banier's Ovid in two volumes ...
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... rare copy may be here noticed of the Epistles of Phalaris , printed at Vicenza in 1475 , the type of which bears a very marked resemblance to manuscript . But the chief recommendation of the library is its rich collection of classical ...
... rare copy may be here noticed of the Epistles of Phalaris , printed at Vicenza in 1475 , the type of which bears a very marked resemblance to manuscript . But the chief recommendation of the library is its rich collection of classical ...
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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.