The American Bibliopolist, Volumes 8-9J. Sabin & Sons., 1876 - American literature |
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... hundred other professional and scientific gentlemen , have petitioned Congress for the admission , duty free , of all books printed in other than the English , Latin , and Greek languages . Students of Buddhism will be pleased to hear ...
... hundred other professional and scientific gentlemen , have petitioned Congress for the admission , duty free , of all books printed in other than the English , Latin , and Greek languages . Students of Buddhism will be pleased to hear ...
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... hundred subscriber's names ( among whom Messrs . R. and J. Dodsley are put down for one hundred " setts " ) are pre- fixed to the poem ; a good earnest of that support which gave Baskerville the power to put forth the subsequent Prayer ...
... hundred subscriber's names ( among whom Messrs . R. and J. Dodsley are put down for one hundred " setts " ) are pre- fixed to the poem ; a good earnest of that support which gave Baskerville the power to put forth the subsequent Prayer ...
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... hundred and fifty years since with the means necessitated by the de- mands of modern journalism . J. S. HODSON . Jefferson and his Bookseller . — I send here- with a copy of a letter of Thos . Jefferson to his bookseller , which may be ...
... hundred and fifty years since with the means necessitated by the de- mands of modern journalism . J. S. HODSON . Jefferson and his Bookseller . — I send here- with a copy of a letter of Thos . Jefferson to his bookseller , which may be ...
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... hundred years , their features , when exhumed , have , it is said , all the freshness of life , and there is often a perceptible motion of the heart . They are said to leave their graves at night on their fearful mission , returning to ...
... hundred years , their features , when exhumed , have , it is said , all the freshness of life , and there is often a perceptible motion of the heart . They are said to leave their graves at night on their fearful mission , returning to ...
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... hundred pages . * It has not become popular , and is not valued by historians or scholars . Iturri remarks , the result is not commensurate with the thirteen years spent by the author in his search for original documents , but Ticknor ...
... hundred pages . * It has not become popular , and is not valued by historians or scholars . Iturri remarks , the result is not commensurate with the thirteen years spent by the author in his search for original documents , but Ticknor ...
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Page 35 - O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer ; welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 9 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 12 - Any citizen of the United States or resident therein, who shall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition...
Page 5 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 72 - Do you remember the brown suit, which you made to hang upon you till all your friends cried shame upon you, it grew so threadbare, — and all because of that folio Beaumont and Fletcher...
Page 72 - Do you remember how we eyed it for weeks before we could make up our minds to the purchase, and had not come to a determination till it was near ten o'clock of...
Page 14 - A Popular History | of | The United States | From the | First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere | By the Northmen, To the end of the | First Century of the Union | of the States.
Page 5 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 54 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev.
Page lxxii - A List of Works illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare, the History of Stratford-on-Avon, and the Rise and Progress of the Early English Drama. Printed for very Limited and Private Circulation at the Expense of JO Halliwell, 1850-1866.