Catalogue, Issues 278-288

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1912
 

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Page 47 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 35 - My spirit is too weak— mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, Bring round the heart an...
Page 73 - Memoirs of the beauties of the court of Charles the Second, with their portraits after Sir Peter Lely and other eminent painters; illustrating the diaries of Pepys. Evelyn, Clarendon and other contemporary writers.
Page 37 - The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David.
Page 95 - An Account of the Ceremonies observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England ; viz., King James II.
Page 32 - COURSE OF THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI. From the Balise to Fort Chartres, taken on an Expedition to the Illinois, in the latter end of the year 1765, by Lieut. Ross, of the 34th Regiment, improved from the surveys of that River made by the French.
Page 106 - Shakespeare Illustrated, by an Assemblage of Portraits and Views appropriated to the whole Suite of our Author's Historical Dramas. To which are added Portraits of Actors, Editors, etc.
Page 73 - JERDAN (William). National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century.
Page 108 - What a place to be in is an old library ! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade.
Page 149 - A Parallel in the manner of Plutarch, between a most celebrated man of Florence, and one, scarce ever heard of, in England...

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