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Page 372 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 176 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper : it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 323 - A / Comedy, / As it was presented by her / Majesties Servants, at the private / House in Drury Lane.
Page 680 - The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A Comedy. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre.
Page 563 - An Essay on the External Use of Water, in a Letter to Dr , with particular Remarks upon the present Method of using the Mineral Waters at Bath in Somersetshire, and a plan for rendering them more safe, agreeable, and efficacious ; 4to, 1752.
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Page 115 - AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF THE FEMALE SEX. In which are inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady: Written by a Lady.
Page 463 - The White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.
Page 578 - A Pleasant Comedy As it hath been several times Acted with great Applause. Written by John Webster and William Rowley.
Page 461 - WARD, EDWARD. — Nuptial Dialogues and Debates : or, An Useful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Marry'd Life, incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage.