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... Beautiful to fashion Cupid : But , in some sympathetic mood , Perhaps the Ugly wooed the Stupid . Is Cupid nervous ? Not a bit ; Love seeks no mortal approbation . Stalls , boxes , gallery , and pit May hiss or cheer the transformation ...
... Beautiful to fashion Cupid : But , in some sympathetic mood , Perhaps the Ugly wooed the Stupid . Is Cupid nervous ? Not a bit ; Love seeks no mortal approbation . Stalls , boxes , gallery , and pit May hiss or cheer the transformation ...
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... beautiful flower . ( Yes , I once read a ballad at school Of a rose that was wash'd in a shower . ) But , although I may doat on the rose , I can scarcely believe that it smells Quite so sweet in the bed where it grows As when sold ...
... beautiful flower . ( Yes , I once read a ballad at school Of a rose that was wash'd in a shower . ) But , although I may doat on the rose , I can scarcely believe that it smells Quite so sweet in the bed where it grows As when sold ...
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... Beautiful Pictures by British Artists : A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries . In Two Series . The FIRST SERIES including Examples by WILKIE , Constable , TURNER , MULREADY , LANDSEER , MACLISE , E. M. WARD , FRITH , Sir ...
... Beautiful Pictures by British Artists : A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries . In Two Series . The FIRST SERIES including Examples by WILKIE , Constable , TURNER , MULREADY , LANDSEER , MACLISE , E. M. WARD , FRITH , Sir ...
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... beautiful Copperplates . Crown 8vo , cloth extra , gilt , 7s . 6d . Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities , chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs , Ceremonies , and Superstitions . With the Additions of Sir HENRY ...
... beautiful Copperplates . Crown 8vo , cloth extra , gilt , 7s . 6d . Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities , chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs , Ceremonies , and Superstitions . With the Additions of Sir HENRY ...
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... beautiful Steel Plates by STOTHARD , engraved by GOODALL ; and numerous Woodcuts . Crown 8vo , cloth extra , gilt , with Illustrations , 7s . 6d . Byron's Letters and Journals . With Notices of his Life . By THOMAS MOORE . A Reprint of ...
... beautiful Steel Plates by STOTHARD , engraved by GOODALL ; and numerous Woodcuts . Crown 8vo , cloth extra , gilt , with Illustrations , 7s . 6d . Byron's Letters and Journals . With Notices of his Life . By THOMAS MOORE . A Reprint of ...
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Page 10 - Greeks and Romans, The Life of the, Described from Antique Monuments. By ERNST GUHL and W. KONER. Translated from the Third German Edition, and Edited by Dr.
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Page 10 - The illustrations of this volume .... are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate ; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my ' Elements of Drawing,' were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him).
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