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4to and 8vo 6d circa A.L.s. to Lord Actor Actress addressed April Author Auto AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH POEM signed Battle of Talavera begs Bishop bookplate catalogues CENT Charles Coleridge Curious A.L.s. dated dear Dickens Duke Earl Edmund Yates Edward English engraved envelope signed famous Five A.Lrs.s folio Four A.Lrs.s French G. W. Napier Garrick Garrick's handwriting George Gerald Massey half calf Henry House Inchbald Interesting A.L.s. interesting letter Jacobite James John John Philip Kemble Joseph Hume July June King Lady London Long and Interesting Lord Bathurst Lord Townshend Lrs.s Marquis Mary Miss Morrison Collection Novelist Painter Papers Paris play Poet portrait and biography post-marks Prince relating Robert Sinclair seal seventeenth century signature Sir Walter Scott Six A.Lrs.s specimen Statesman Theatre Royal theatrical third person Thomas Three A.Lrs.s vellum water-marked William Wilson Barrett Woburn Abbey writes
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Page 18 - MY DEAR SIR : — I lose not a moment in letting you know that the Duke of Clarence has concluded and settled on me and his children the most liberal and generous provision ; and I trust everything will sink into oblivion. " Yours ever,
Page 18 - BUSHY, Thursday, August 17, 1809. "I am very vain, but still I have judgment enough not to be fond of doing that which I know I do very ill. Still I feel pleasure in writing to you, who so kindly enter into all my feelings. You may easily guess what they were last Monday night, when I heard the account of the battle of Talavera. Five thousand killed! the duke at Brighton ! I went to bed, but not to sleep.
Page 18 - When I last did myself the pleasure of •writing to you, I mentioned, that I waited for the assistance of a friend, who was not just then in the •way, to contradict the cruel and infamous reports that were then in circulation ; but, on my application to him, (perhaps he was right,) he said, that •what had been done, had every good effect that could possibly be expected, or wished for; and that a renewal of the subject might do more harm than good.
Page 9 - An Essay Towards a New English Dictionary. Wherein the Terms of Art are cast together, as likewise Words and Phrases of the same Import; so that every Reader may without trouble find Words and Expressions proper to his Subject.
Page 18 - My mind is beginning to feel somewhat reconciled to the shock and surprise it has lately received ; for could you or the world believe that we never had, for twenty years, the semblance of a quarrel. But this is so well known in our domestic circle, that the astonishment is the greater! Money, money, my good...
Page 18 - I feel pleasure in writing to you, who so kindly enter into all my feelings. You may easily guess what they were last Monday night, when I heard the account of the battle of Talavera, Five thousand killed ! the duke at Brighton ! I went to bed, but not to sleep. "The duke set out at five o'clock on the Tuesday, to be the first to relieve me from my misery. I am mentally relieved, but it has torn my nerves to pieces. I have five boys, and must look forward to a life of constant anxiety and suspense.
Page 7 - Of a bad angel, that was someway good, And therefore on the brink of Heaven he stood, Looking each way, and no way could proceed; Till at the last he purged away his sin By loving all the joy he saw within.
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Page 10 - England, and the relation it had to other provinces. Written by Sr. Foulk Grevill, late Lord Brook.
Page 26 - ... Parliaments of both our kingdomes, that Commissioners might be nominated to Treat and Consult concerning this Vnion. And whereas in our parliament held at Westminster, an Act lately pass'd in the Two and Twentieth year of our Raigne, entituled An Act Authorizing certaine Commissioners of the Realme of England to treate with Commissioners of Scotland for the weale of both Kingdomes, in and by which Act of Parliament, to the end our Royall and gracious purposes might be accomplished, and such a...