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... plays . It belonged to the Rev. House , Putney . ' There is no letterpress excepting the List of Plates ' and the few lines on the fly - leaf which precedes every illustration but the frontispiece . On the blue cloth cover is an ...
... plays . It belonged to the Rev. House , Putney . ' There is no letterpress excepting the List of Plates ' and the few lines on the fly - leaf which precedes every illustration but the frontispiece . On the blue cloth cover is an ...
Page 11
... PLAYS , 1632 . " 2 " This cancel leaf was evidently printed after the book was on sale , and was issued to purchasers in the same way as cancel leaves are occasionally issued at the present day . " I am myself satisfied - as only three ...
... PLAYS , 1632 . " 2 " This cancel leaf was evidently printed after the book was on sale , and was issued to purchasers in the same way as cancel leaves are occasionally issued at the present day . " I am myself satisfied - as only three ...
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... plays , and as Bacon himself tells us in the thirty - sixth of his Apophthegms , ' first printed in 1671 ) . This particular " hanged- hog " is , however , clothed in a porcupine's skin . ( Sidney's crest is a porcupine . ) Then ...
... plays , and as Bacon himself tells us in the thirty - sixth of his Apophthegms , ' first printed in 1671 ) . This particular " hanged- hog " is , however , clothed in a porcupine's skin . ( Sidney's crest is a porcupine . ) Then ...
Page 15
... Playing at ... shepherd's chess . " The old village and the farmhouse game of " fox and geese . " The saplings grow from the stumps ; the weaker saplings are cut off , and one left . The young saplings or shoots are " stools , " and ...
... Playing at ... shepherd's chess . " The old village and the farmhouse game of " fox and geese . " The saplings grow from the stumps ; the weaker saplings are cut off , and one left . The young saplings or shoots are " stools , " and ...
Page 18
... played in a place called the " Sferisterio at Rome . " " T. A. Trollope in his ' What I Remember ' was much puzzled by the use of the above term - easily explainable . I understand that a similar game is much played by the Peruvian ...
... played in a place called the " Sferisterio at Rome . " " T. A. Trollope in his ' What I Remember ' was much puzzled by the use of the above term - easily explainable . I understand that a similar game is much played by the Peruvian ...
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Page 257 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.
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Page 87 - Dr. Thomas, who is Chaplain to the King. They are both Chaplains to the King. Dr. Thomas, who is a very good preacher.
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