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... Characters of Old Books in English Literature revived , 4 vols . 8vo . calf gilt , 36s 1814-16 63 BULSTRODE'S Memoirs and reflections on the reign and government of King Charles I. , Charles II . , and the Commonwealth , 8vo . good copy ...
... Characters of Old Books in English Literature revived , 4 vols . 8vo . calf gilt , 36s 1814-16 63 BULSTRODE'S Memoirs and reflections on the reign and government of King Charles I. , Charles II . , and the Commonwealth , 8vo . good copy ...
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... Characters of the Abbots of St. Albans , Transcript of Domesday Book , with a translation thereof : to which are added ... character and views both of the Duke of York , the King , and the popular leaders , and put the student into ...
... Characters of the Abbots of St. Albans , Transcript of Domesday Book , with a translation thereof : to which are added ... character and views both of the Duke of York , the King , and the popular leaders , and put the student into ...
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... character , etc. 8vo . calf gilt , 2s 6d 1788 95 EARLY ENGLISH PROSE ROMANCES , with bibliographical and historical Intro- ductions by Thoms , 3 vols . 8vo . second edition , hf . morocco , neat , uncut , 21s 1858 Contents : -Vol . I ...
... character , etc. 8vo . calf gilt , 2s 6d 1788 95 EARLY ENGLISH PROSE ROMANCES , with bibliographical and historical Intro- ductions by Thoms , 3 vols . 8vo . second edition , hf . morocco , neat , uncut , 21s 1858 Contents : -Vol . I ...
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... character of their Author , given in the diary of Lord Byron , Nov. 22 , 1813 : " On all subjects of taste , his delicacy of expression is pure as his poetry . If you enter his house - his drawing room - his library - you of yourself ...
... character of their Author , given in the diary of Lord Byron , Nov. 22 , 1813 : " On all subjects of taste , his delicacy of expression is pure as his poetry . If you enter his house - his drawing room - his library - you of yourself ...
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... character of Swift . This Biography alone were sufficient to make it an invaluable work ; but the thousand memo- ries of Anglo - Irish history which hallow the venerable Cathedral of St. Patrick's , and which have here found so faithful ...
... character of Swift . This Biography alone were sufficient to make it an invaluable work ; but the thousand memo- ries of Anglo - Irish history which hallow the venerable Cathedral of St. Patrick's , and which have here found so faithful ...
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Page 201 - of the Birds of the United States ; with a continuation by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, new and enlarged Edition, completed by the insertion of above One Hundred Birds omitted in the original Work, and illustrated by valuable Notes, with an interesting Life of the Author, by Sir William Jardine, Bart., 3 vols. 8vo.
Page 49 - so as to render their use easy and familiar to the most ordinary capacity. Together with Practical Rules for Spanish Pronunciation, and Models of Social and Commercial Correspondence, the whole designed for young learners and persons who are their own instructors, by M. VELASQUEZ and T. SIMONNE,
Page 10 - In elocution and elegance, in harmony and perspicuity of versification, he surpasses his predecessors in an infinite proportion ; his genius was universal, and adapted to themes of unbounded variety, and his merit was not less in painting familiar manners with humour and propriety, than in moving the passions, and in representing the beautiful or grand
Page 276 - added, where the Word or Phrase is used, An indispensable book to the reader of our old Poets, Dramatists, Theologians, and other writers, whose works abound with allusions of which explanations are not to be found in ordinary Dictionaries and other books of reference.
Page 125 - the Devanágarí Recension of the Text, now for the first time edited in England, with literal English Translations of all the Metrical passages, schemes of the Metres, and copious critical and explanatory notes, by M. Williams, roy. 8vo. (pub. at £1.
Page 26 - library—you of yourself say, this is not the dwelling of a common mind. There is not a gem, a coin, a book thrown aside, on his chimney-piece, his sofa, his table, that does not bespeak an almost fastidious elegance in the possessor.
Page 120 - GESENIUS' Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, including the Biblical Chaldee. From the Latin of William Gesenius, late Professor of Theology in the University of Halle-Wittemberg. By Edward Robinson, Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. With Corrections and
Page 8 - letters are an important testimony to tbe progressive condition of society, and come in as a precious link in the chain of the moral history of England, which they alone in this period supply. They stand indeed singly in Europe
Page 234 - library—you of yourself say, this is not the dwelling of a common mind. There is not a gem, a coin, a book thrown aside, on his chimney-piece, his sofa, his table, that does not bespeak an almost fastidious elegance in the
Page 8 - in Europe ; for though it is highly probable that in the archives of Italian families, if not in France or Germany, a series of merely private letters equally ancient may be concealed, I do not recollect any that have been published. They were all written in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., except a few