Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 2J. Major, 1836 - Bibliographical literature |
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Page 574
... edition of that trumpery author Sigonius ; it is his Historiarum de Regno Italiæ . The other is a beautiful small octavo copy of Les Poesies de Jacques Tahvreau : de Mons , mises toutes ensemble et dedieés au Reverendissime Cardinal du ...
... edition of that trumpery author Sigonius ; it is his Historiarum de Regno Italiæ . The other is a beautiful small octavo copy of Les Poesies de Jacques Tahvreau : de Mons , mises toutes ensemble et dedieés au Reverendissime Cardinal du ...
Page 581
... edition at this moment before me ) may I ask how and whence the word THAMYRA was used ? I see that same word masculinised in an address to the reader prefixed to an edition of Catullus , Tibullus , and Propertius , printed at Venice in ...
... edition at this moment before me ) may I ask how and whence the word THAMYRA was used ? I see that same word masculinised in an address to the reader prefixed to an edition of Catullus , Tibullus , and Propertius , printed at Venice in ...
Page 582
... edition of the Hercu- laneum Antiquities by Messrs . Lettice and Martin . " Sir ( said Johnson to Boswell ) , they don't know what they have undertaken : THE ENGRAVERS WILL DRIVE THEM MAD ! " Most assuredly I had my pa- tience as well ...
... edition of the Hercu- laneum Antiquities by Messrs . Lettice and Martin . " Sir ( said Johnson to Boswell ) , they don't know what they have undertaken : THE ENGRAVERS WILL DRIVE THEM MAD ! " Most assuredly I had my pa- tience as well ...
Page 590
... edition of De Thou's History of his Own Times . The principal evidence is that of the learned and irre- proachable HUET . He says ( ex Commentario de rebus ad eum perti- nentibus . Augt . 1718 , 12mo . p . 390 , & c . ) : " A few years ...
... edition of De Thou's History of his Own Times . The principal evidence is that of the learned and irre- proachable HUET . He says ( ex Commentario de rebus ad eum perti- nentibus . Augt . 1718 , 12mo . p . 390 , & c . ) : " A few years ...
Page 591
... edition to the last three volumes ; but it may be as well to know , that after the half title of the first volume , three copper- plate embellishments ( of which the first is the general title ) ensue , and that the title to the ...
... edition to the last three volumes ; but it may be as well to know , that after the half title of the first volume , three copper- plate embellishments ( of which the first is the general title ) ensue , and that the title to the ...
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Page 739 - So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read...
Page 559 - All things that love the sun are out of doors : The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops ; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 811 - ... that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death.
Page 822 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 879 - Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY.
Page 736 - Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
Page 752 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 599 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Page 806 - Lord, on the simple and ignorant, who have been led astray, and recall them to a sense of their duty : And to persons of all ranks and conditions in this country, vouchsafe such a measure of Thy grace, that, our hearts being...
Page 772 - JESUS hath now many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. He findeth many companions of His table, but few of His abstinence.