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... written from their home in Florence , where they retired after the fall of Napoleon , and where Joseph Bonaparte died six months after this letter was written . ( Trans . ) : — " I thank you for your good wishes Year . • : - • for the ...
... written from their home in Florence , where they retired after the fall of Napoleon , and where Joseph Bonaparte died six months after this letter was written . ( Trans . ) : — " I thank you for your good wishes Year . • : - • for the ...
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... written to James Taylor , a rejected suitor , who had left England and gone to India on behalf of Charlotte Bronte's publishers , Smith & Elder , in whose employment he was . It was in connection with the literary department of that ...
... written to James Taylor , a rejected suitor , who had left England and gone to India on behalf of Charlotte Bronte's publishers , Smith & Elder , in whose employment he was . It was in connection with the literary department of that ...
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... written before her marriage , to Robert Browning , concerning one of her books , evidently the " Poems . " ** Finding that I still require six more copies , I must trouble you again to direct them to be sent to me . And I take this ...
... written before her marriage , to Robert Browning , concerning one of her books , evidently the " Poems . " ** Finding that I still require six more copies , I must trouble you again to direct them to be sent to me . And I take this ...
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... written , consisting of some 74 lines , with numerous corrections . Being a critical essay on Wm . Pitt , 1st Earl of Chatham . 2 pp . , folio . N.D. £ 45 This magnificent original autograph essay on Chatham , it is believed has never ...
... written , consisting of some 74 lines , with numerous corrections . Being a critical essay on Wm . Pitt , 1st Earl of Chatham . 2 pp . , folio . N.D. £ 45 This magnificent original autograph essay on Chatham , it is believed has never ...
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... written by him . 103 COUTTS ( Thomas , 1735-1822 ) . Celebrated Banker . Founder of Coutts & Co. A.L. S. to Tunbridge Wells , 27 June , 1821 . My dear Lord . " I full page , 4to . £ I IOS An important letter as to Prince Leopold's ...
... written by him . 103 COUTTS ( Thomas , 1735-1822 ) . Celebrated Banker . Founder of Coutts & Co. A.L. S. to Tunbridge Wells , 27 June , 1821 . My dear Lord . " I full page , 4to . £ I IOS An important letter as to Prince Leopold's ...
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Page 47 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
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Page 106 - Shakespeare Illustrated, by an Assemblage of Portraits and Views appropriated to the whole Suite of our Author's Historical Dramas. To which are added Portraits of Actors, Editors, etc.
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Page 108 - What a place to be in is an old library ! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade.
Page 149 - A Parallel in the manner of Plutarch, between a most celebrated man of Florence, and one, scarce ever heard of, in England...