A Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton

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Page 128 - PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER. The Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged with notes by Francis Turner Palgrave, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. [Vignette.]
Page 25 - Such Poems as the following come properly enough, I suppose, under the head of ' Dramatic Pieces ' ; being, though for the most part Lyric in expression, always Dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine.—RB
Page 13 - CARON DE. La Folle Journée, ou le mariage de Figaro, comédie en cinq actes, en prose, par M. de Beaumarchais. Représentée pour la première fois par les Comédiens Français ordinaires du Roi, le Mardi 27 Avril 1784.
Page 168 - A wondrous book, Of legends in the old Norse tongue, Of the dead kings of Norroway,— Legends that once were told or sung In many a smoky fireside nook Of Iceland, in the ancient day, By wandering Saga-man or Skald, Heimskringla is the volume called.
Page 42 - *COX, THOMAS. Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova; or a New Survey of Great Britain, wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr. Cambden and the late Editors of his Britannia is added a more large history ... Collected and composed by an impartial Hand. In the Savoy,
Page 26 - Hudibras. In Three Parts Written in the time of the late Wars. Corrected and amended. With large annotations and preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Embellished with Engravings by T. Rowlandson, Esq. London,
Page 43 - Cambridge. The second edition, wherein are added divers pieces not before extant. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Arms in St.
Page 32 - Three Catalogues ; describing the Contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, of the Dodsworth Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, FSA London,
Page 166 - Relation of all the memorable Monuments and other especiall Observations, both in and about the same Citie. Written in the yeere 1598, by John Stow, citizen of London. Since then, continued, corrected, and much enlarged with many rare and worthy Notes, both of Venerable Antiquity, and later memorie ; such as were never published before this present
Page 145 - The History of Polybius, the Megalopolitan : containing a general Account of the Transactions of the World, and principally of the Roman People during the First and Second Punic Wars. Translated by Sir HS To which is added, A Character of Polybius and his Writings. By Mr. Dryden

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