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... Volume can be obtained separately , 21s . By His Majesty the KING of SWEDEN and NORWAY . Royal 8vo . 12s . The HISTORY of the THIRTY The COURT and FAMILY of NAPO- YEARS ' WAR . By ANTON GINDELY . Translated by Professor ANDREW TEN BROOK ...
... Volume can be obtained separately , 21s . By His Majesty the KING of SWEDEN and NORWAY . Royal 8vo . 12s . The HISTORY of the THIRTY The COURT and FAMILY of NAPO- YEARS ' WAR . By ANTON GINDELY . Translated by Professor ANDREW TEN BROOK ...
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... volume as Mr. Lee's Shakspeare appears the Sir Walter Scott of Mr. Leslie Stephen , a biography of only inferior importance . Little that is new is left to be said concerning Sir Walter . The most pregnant sentences in the biography are ...
... volume as Mr. Lee's Shakspeare appears the Sir Walter Scott of Mr. Leslie Stephen , a biography of only inferior importance . Little that is new is left to be said concerning Sir Walter . The most pregnant sentences in the biography are ...
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... VOLUME ( III . ) THE Price THREEPENCE . ATHENÆUM JOURNAL OF ENGLISH and FOREIGN LITERATURE , and the DRAMA . This Day's ATHENÆUM contains Articles on WOMEN NOVELISTS of QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN . BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA . PETER the GREAT ...
... VOLUME ( III . ) THE Price THREEPENCE . ATHENÆUM JOURNAL OF ENGLISH and FOREIGN LITERATURE , and the DRAMA . This Day's ATHENÆUM contains Articles on WOMEN NOVELISTS of QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN . BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA . PETER the GREAT ...
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... volume with unacknowledged extracts from other authors cheek - by - jowl with moral reflections smacks of the literary gentleman who lodged at the thief - catcher's in Lewkner's Lane and wrote against the impiety of Mr. Rowe's plays ...
... volume with unacknowledged extracts from other authors cheek - by - jowl with moral reflections smacks of the literary gentleman who lodged at the thief - catcher's in Lewkner's Lane and wrote against the impiety of Mr. Rowe's plays ...
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... volume of excerpta in the possession of Mr. William George , of Bristol . I propose to dispense with the entries as to the mayors , sheriffs , & c . : - " 1486 [ 7 ] . This year the Duke of Bedford came into Bristowe , where he ...
... volume of excerpta in the possession of Mr. William George , of Bristol . I propose to dispense with the entries as to the mayors , sheriffs , & c . : - " 1486 [ 7 ] . This year the Duke of Bedford came into Bristowe , where he ...
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Page 60 - And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Page 40 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 24 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 220 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Page 168 - Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.
Page 125 - Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.
Page 169 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 49 - To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Page 104 - I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had.
Page 145 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i