Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, Volume 6Elliot Stock, 1887 - Bibliography |
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... Copies are remaining ; in some instances as few- as only two are left . In every case the number printed has been strictly ... copy only . LI IIS . 6d . The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle . By Dame JULIANA BERNERS . A facsimile ...
... Copies are remaining ; in some instances as few- as only two are left . In every case the number printed has been strictly ... copy only . LI IIS . 6d . The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle . By Dame JULIANA BERNERS . A facsimile ...
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... copies were wanted , but if a large edition was to be printed the saving of labour was manifest . The Chinese are , and always have been , an eminently literary nation , learning being highly thought of , and the one thing that ensures ...
... copies were wanted , but if a large edition was to be printed the saving of labour was manifest . The Chinese are , and always have been , an eminently literary nation , learning being highly thought of , and the one thing that ensures ...
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... Copies of this work , however , are very scarce , and rarely find their way into the book - market ; for his afore ... copy being for sale in 1876 ; but we never heard of its fate , and the British Museum is fortunate in possessing a ...
... Copies of this work , however , are very scarce , and rarely find their way into the book - market ; for his afore ... copy being for sale in 1876 ; but we never heard of its fate , and the British Museum is fortunate in possessing a ...
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... copy of the Scots ' Acts , bought for a few milungs sold recently for a trifle ove These Scotch printed books are very big gran mah Cons of Shakespeare and the starratione there are none greater of his age are known A COMPLE of 917 ...
... copy of the Scots ' Acts , bought for a few milungs sold recently for a trifle ove These Scotch printed books are very big gran mah Cons of Shakespeare and the starratione there are none greater of his age are known A COMPLE of 917 ...
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... copy of the work . What can be the meaning of " She " ? says the novel - reader ; and his mind wanders from one possible explanation to another , until he perhaps buys the book out of sheer desperation . Having read it , he cannot come ...
... copy of the work . What can be the meaning of " She " ? says the novel - reader ; and his mind wanders from one possible explanation to another , until he perhaps buys the book out of sheer desperation . Having read it , he cannot come ...
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Page 23 - robin red-breast; Sing, birds, in every furrow; And from each bill, let music shrill Give my fair love good-morrow. Blackbird and thrush, in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow, You pretty elves, amongst yourselves, Sing my fair love good-morrow. To give my love good-morrow, Sing, birds, in every furrow.
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Page 73 - did not want examples among his predecessors or companions among his contemporaries; but in the meanness and servility of hyperbolical adulation I know not whether since the days in which the Roman Emperors were deified he has ever been equalled, except by Afra Behn in an address to Eleanor Gwyn.
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Page 67 - them than the common sort Of outward things : that judge in their intent Without regard, what inward doth resort I graunt, sometime of glory that the fire Doth touch my heart. Me list not to report Blame by honour, nor honour to desire, But how may I this honour now attaine That
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