Catalogue of the ... Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings, of the Late Sir William Tite ...: Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Auctioneers ... the 18th of May, and Nine Following Days ...

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Dryden Press, J. Davy and Sons, 1874 - Auction catalogs - 288 pages

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Page 200 - The most excellent Historic of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the lewe towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh; and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests.
Page 50 - Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome &c.
Page 107 - Description and Draught of a new-invented MACHINE for carrying vessels or ships out of or into any harbour, port or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm...
Page 269 - I am extremely sorry that you should think me warm at our last meeting ; your judgment certainly ought to be free, especially in a matter which must in some measure concern your own credit and interest I assure you, sir, I have no disposition to differ with you on this or any other account, but am. with an high opinion of your abilities, and a very real esteem, sir, your most obedient humble servant. OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
Page 72 - Fables inédites des xn°, xme et xiv" siècles, et Fables de La Fontaine rapprochées de celles de tous les auteurs qui avaient avant lui traité les mêmes sujets, précédées d'une Notice sur les fabulistes, par A.-C.-M. ROBERT, conservateur de la bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève. — Paris, Etienne Cabin, 1825, 2. vol. in-8°.
Page 138 - Maroccus Extaticus, or Bankes bay horse in a traunce, vj.a'." The ballad appears to have perished, but a copy of the pamphlet has been preserved, and is thus entitled,—"Maroccus Extaticus, or Bankes Bay Horse in a Trance, a discourse set downe in a merry dialogue between Bankes and his beast, anatomizing some abuses and bad trickes of this age, written and intituled to mine host of the Belsavage, and all his honest guests...

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