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... volume has a special interest of its own , indepen- dently of its predecessors , for it contains the annals of the English College at Rome from 1579 to 1773 , with the pilgrim - book of the ancient hospice attached to the col- lege from ...
... volume has a special interest of its own , indepen- dently of its predecessors , for it contains the annals of the English College at Rome from 1579 to 1773 , with the pilgrim - book of the ancient hospice attached to the col- lege from ...
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... volume ( vol . xxii . ) , has commenced , apparently , a more vigorous life , under an enlarged and improved form . Among articles of general literary interest which have appeared since the change on November 1st we may " Heine and ...
... volume ( vol . xxii . ) , has commenced , apparently , a more vigorous life , under an enlarged and improved form . Among articles of general literary interest which have appeared since the change on November 1st we may " Heine and ...
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... Volume of Verse . Crown 8vo . 9s . The SONNETS of MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI and TOM- MASO CAMPANELLA . Now for the first time Translated into Rhymed English . Crown 8vo . 7s . NEW and OLD : a Volume of Verse . Crown 8vo . 95 . WORKS BY ...
... Volume of Verse . Crown 8vo . 9s . The SONNETS of MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI and TOM- MASO CAMPANELLA . Now for the first time Translated into Rhymed English . Crown 8vo . 7s . NEW and OLD : a Volume of Verse . Crown 8vo . 95 . WORKS BY ...
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... Volume is a perfect marvel of cheapness and beauty . It not only forms an intensely interesting book of Tales , Adventures , and Travels for Children , but will be found an accurate and valuable School or Nursery Geography . ILLUMINATED ...
... Volume is a perfect marvel of cheapness and beauty . It not only forms an intensely interesting book of Tales , Adventures , and Travels for Children , but will be found an accurate and valuable School or Nursery Geography . ILLUMINATED ...
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... volume for 1819 ( 1719 ) , and to be from the pen of Dr. Busby . I should be grateful for any information , and still more so for the loan of the volume . ( MISS ) L. PHILLIMORE . 5 , Arlington Street , S.W. A SWIMMING MACHINE . - Some ...
... volume for 1819 ( 1719 ) , and to be from the pen of Dr. Busby . I should be grateful for any information , and still more so for the loan of the volume . ( MISS ) L. PHILLIMORE . 5 , Arlington Street , S.W. A SWIMMING MACHINE . - Some ...
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Page 66 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Page 366 - He must correct the press himself, and print it without any interval between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued beyond them; and the title must be, "Elegy, written in a Country Church-yard.
Page 266 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 151 - We now come to a wilder trait of the Hungerford family, in an eccentric memorial of one of its members. Sir Edward Hungerford, who was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II...
Page 112 - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish learning's store ; But Books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. Read slowly, Pause frequently, Think seriously, Keep cleanly, return duly, With the corners of the leaves not turned down.
Page 241 - Melampronvea ; or, a Discourse of the Polity and Kingdom of Darkness ; together with a Solution of the chiefest Objections brought against the being of Witches.
Page 158 - ATHENJETTM is so conducted that the reader, however distant, is, in respect to Literature, Science, and Art, on an equality in point of information with the best-informed circles of the Metropolis.
Page 162 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing. Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Page 180 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
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