The American Bibliopolist, Volym 6J. Sabin & Sons., 1874 |
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... valuable resource . Mr. Harness having thus converted the foolish conjecture into a fact , it became a current remark , that our three greatest poets were afflicted with lameness ! In 1859 , Mr. W. J. Thoms added his little quota to ...
... valuable resource . Mr. Harness having thus converted the foolish conjecture into a fact , it became a current remark , that our three greatest poets were afflicted with lameness ! In 1859 , Mr. W. J. Thoms added his little quota to ...
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... valuable part of the memorial is to be found in the third vol- ume , which contains the whole history of Archibald Constable's connection with Sir Walter Scott . The narrative bears the marks of thorough truthfulness , and no one ...
... valuable part of the memorial is to be found in the third vol- ume , which contains the whole history of Archibald Constable's connection with Sir Walter Scott . The narrative bears the marks of thorough truthfulness , and no one ...
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... valuable ; can tell you exactly where every other copy is at the present moment contained ; and what price was given for them at every sale that has ever been recorded . He may be a man given to literary research ; more likely he is a ...
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... valuable aids to this noble end ; and I think that I perform my own share of duty in bestowing special cultivation upon the soil that seems most fertile , which is undoubtedly the United States . It is un- necessary to ascend the ...
... valuable aids to this noble end ; and I think that I perform my own share of duty in bestowing special cultivation upon the soil that seems most fertile , which is undoubtedly the United States . It is un- necessary to ascend the ...
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... valuable , and scarce work . 250 copies printed . $ 150.00 4 BURNEY , CHARLES . A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period . Vignettes by Bartolozzi , and Explanatory Plates . vols . , 4to , polished calf ...
... valuable , and scarce work . 250 copies printed . $ 150.00 4 BURNEY , CHARLES . A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period . Vignettes by Bartolozzi , and Explanatory Plates . vols . , 4to , polished calf ...
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Sida 64 - OH that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, 5 ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...
Sida 130 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Sida 64 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Sida 59 - M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Sida 19 - EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH, LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name was ELIZABETH, The other let it sleep with death : Fitter, where it died, to tell, Than that it lived at all. Farewell 1 SONG.
Sida 64 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Sida 110 - Flagellation and the Flagellants. — A History of the Rod in all Countries, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By the Rev. W. COOPER, BA Second Edition, revised and corrected, with numerous Illustrations.
Sida 30 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Sida 44 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Sida 64 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves