Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 2J. Major, 1836 - Bibliographical literature |
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Page 573
... worthy of record and of illustra- tion ) , and am sure of the excellence of the execution . I saw the two specimens at Arch's , and beautiful they were- Rembrandt , I presume , or Titian - for Arch could not say . As he expected to see ...
... worthy of record and of illustra- tion ) , and am sure of the excellence of the execution . I saw the two specimens at Arch's , and beautiful they were- Rembrandt , I presume , or Titian - for Arch could not say . As he expected to see ...
Page 593
... worthy gentleman . I used to draw him insensibly into a long discourse , and copious off - hand quotations from Lucretius and Virgil . Mr. Ocheda's memory was great . I used ordi- narily to find him close to a lamp , with one of the ...
... worthy gentleman . I used to draw him insensibly into a long discourse , and copious off - hand quotations from Lucretius and Virgil . Mr. Ocheda's memory was great . I used ordi- narily to find him close to a lamp , with one of the ...
Page 599
... worthy Roxburgher ) , but I should doubt whether there were 750 Subscribers for books , at 77. 17s . 6d . per copy , on literary subjects * . " Fortunately this prediction was not likely to be publication from the same distinguished ...
... worthy Roxburgher ) , but I should doubt whether there were 750 Subscribers for books , at 77. 17s . 6d . per copy , on literary subjects * . " Fortunately this prediction was not likely to be publication from the same distinguished ...
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... worthy Roxburgher ) , but I should doubt whether there were 750 Subscribers for books , at 77. 17s . 6d . per copy , on literary subjects * . " Fortunately this prediction was not likely to be publication from the same distinguished ...
... worthy Roxburgher ) , but I should doubt whether there were 750 Subscribers for books , at 77. 17s . 6d . per copy , on literary subjects * . " Fortunately this prediction was not likely to be publication from the same distinguished ...
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... worthy , but most unfortunate foreman . " To remaking up volume ii . frequently , two wood - cut pages extra , Greek , Hebrew , matter struck out , and extra trouble in working the numerous blocks 64 6 " To extra corrections and ...
... worthy , but most unfortunate foreman . " To remaking up volume ii . frequently , two wood - cut pages extra , Greek , Hebrew , matter struck out , and extra trouble in working the numerous blocks 64 6 " To extra corrections and ...
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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.