Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, Volume 6Elliot Stock, 1887 - Bibliography |
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... references , and even now hard and dry facts respecting his career are few and scanty . Legend and romance are indeed plentiful , but history is almost silent ; and the little knowledge we possess is derived from incidental references ...
... references , and even now hard and dry facts respecting his career are few and scanty . Legend and romance are indeed plentiful , but history is almost silent ; and the little knowledge we possess is derived from incidental references ...
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... reference to the Early English Text Society's reprint , where the versions are placed in parallel columns . The manuscripts themselves , which , as we have said , are four in number , comprise , first , the Cotton MS . , the same used ...
... reference to the Early English Text Society's reprint , where the versions are placed in parallel columns . The manuscripts themselves , which , as we have said , are four in number , comprise , first , the Cotton MS . , the same used ...
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... reference , the whole of the chronicle is framed on the same model : first , the imperial records , dealing with purely political events ; and then the records of mathematics , rites , music , laws , sacrifices , astronomy , geography ...
... reference , the whole of the chronicle is framed on the same model : first , the imperial records , dealing with purely political events ; and then the records of mathematics , rites , music , laws , sacrifices , astronomy , geography ...
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... references to articles , etc. , in English periodicals to which he may not have access . Simple Mechanics and How to Mend is the title of a new encyclopædia published by Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein and Co. The same firm announces an ...
... references to articles , etc. , in English periodicals to which he may not have access . Simple Mechanics and How to Mend is the title of a new encyclopædia published by Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein and Co. The same firm announces an ...
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... reference to the work on original charters announced in your columns as in preparation by Mr. Birch and Mr. Ellis , of the British Museum , it is to be noted that a precisely similar work , dealing with the charters and deeds in the ...
... reference to the work on original charters announced in your columns as in preparation by Mr. Birch and Mr. Ellis , of the British Museum , it is to be noted that a precisely similar work , dealing with the charters and deeds in the ...
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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 19 - Frank. O sir, to see that nothing may be left That ever was my wife's. I loved her dearly. And when I do but think of her unkindness My thoughts are all in hell; to avoid which torment I would not have a bodkin or a cuff, A bracelet, necklace, or rebato wier, Nor
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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.
Page 114 - Satan, so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven ; he of the first, If not the first Archangel, great in power, In favour and pre-eminence.
Page 23 - Pack clouds away, and welcome day, With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft, To give my love good-morrow. Wings from the
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
Page 72 - I did determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody, because forty shillings I care not for, and above few or none will bestow on these matters, especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet." It will be observed, then, that the price of fulsome
Page 79 - Agrippa kept a Stygian pug, I' th' garb and habit of a dog, That was his tutor, and the cur Read to th' occult philosopher, And taught him subtly to maintain All other sciences