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... interesting question . Miss Mete- yard was a most painstaking and careful author , and I do not think she would have related the visit to the little country church if it had not actually taken place . If any Shropshire antiquary could ...
... interesting question . Miss Mete- yard was a most painstaking and careful author , and I do not think she would have related the visit to the little country church if it had not actually taken place . If any Shropshire antiquary could ...
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... interesting particulars concerning public libraries are advanced . The Hon . D. Herbert Put- nam gives full information concerning the libraries of the United States . A well - illustrated account of Lifeboats ' is by Mr. Charles Dibdin ...
... interesting particulars concerning public libraries are advanced . The Hon . D. Herbert Put- nam gives full information concerning the libraries of the United States . A well - illustrated account of Lifeboats ' is by Mr. Charles Dibdin ...
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... interesting article by Hon . Lieut . H. G. Parsons , ' Voltaire ' follows . ' Ordnance ' occupies a good entitled De Wet's Last Success . ' With this , many freely illustrated pages , and may be read as although it casts a new light ...
... interesting article by Hon . Lieut . H. G. Parsons , ' Voltaire ' follows . ' Ordnance ' occupies a good entitled De Wet's Last Success . ' With this , many freely illustrated pages , and may be read as although it casts a new light ...
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... interesting paper by one bearing the once familiar name of William Allingham.'Abducted by Albatrosses ' is a grim fantasy . How to Test Drinking Water ' affords useful information . - In the hands of Messrs . Chatto & Windus , and ...
... interesting paper by one bearing the once familiar name of William Allingham.'Abducted by Albatrosses ' is a grim fantasy . How to Test Drinking Water ' affords useful information . - In the hands of Messrs . Chatto & Windus , and ...
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... interesting account of the ingra- and that of Moreau le jeune constitute one of the titude of Marmontel towards Caylus and of the most interesting , albeit one of the saddest chapters coolness between the latter and Diderot and the in ...
... interesting account of the ingra- and that of Moreau le jeune constitute one of the titude of Marmontel towards Caylus and of the most interesting , albeit one of the saddest chapters coolness between the latter and Diderot and the in ...
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Page 305 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 215 - Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before him yet the age wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at the highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.
Page 312 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 215 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of Poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Page 200 - An ordinary of arms contained in the public register of all arms and bearings in Scotland.
Page 140 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 200 - So spake the cherub, and his grave rebuke Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined His loss; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed 850 Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 200 - This New and Revised Edition comprises additional material and hitherto Unpublished Letters, Sketches, and Drawings, derived from the Author's Original MSS. and Note-Books; and each volume includes a Memoir in the form of an Introduction by Mrs.
Page 160 - Could raise the daisy's purple bud ! Mould its green cup, its wiry stem, Its fringed border nicely spin, And cut the gold-embossed gem...
Page 51 - To Deptford, to see how miserably the Czar had left my house, after three months making it his Court. I got Sir Christopher Wren, the King's surveyor, and Mr. London his gardener, to go and estimate the repairs, for which they allowed £150 in their report to the Lords of the Treasury.