The Library Companion: Or, the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a LibraryHarding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825 - Всего страниц: 899 Pages 442-444 contain a review of Matthew Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis. |
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... Lord Valentia and Mr. Belzoni - and particularly his own volume , exclusively confined to Abyssinia , Lond . 1814 , 4to . rank him high in the class of Abyssinian travellers . If I am asked , by the economical Collector , to give up ...
... Lord Valentia and Mr. Belzoni - and particularly his own volume , exclusively confined to Abyssinia , Lond . 1814 , 4to . rank him high in the class of Abyssinian travellers . If I am asked , by the economical Collector , to give up ...
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... Lord Holland , at the sale of Dr. Heath's library , under the sum of 31. It is a very curious work , relating chiefly to Canadian manners and customs ; the author lived five years in Canada . It is now rare . Consult Meuselius ; vol ...
... Lord Holland , at the sale of Dr. Heath's library , under the sum of 31. It is a very curious work , relating chiefly to Canadian manners and customs ; the author lived five years in Canada . It is now rare . Consult Meuselius ; vol ...
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... Lord De la Warre , Capt . Generall of Virginia , " " Plaine Description of the Barmudas , " 1618. " Smith's Description of New England " 1606. " State of the Colony and Affairs in Virginia , " 1616. " New England's Plantation , " by Hig ...
... Lord De la Warre , Capt . Generall of Virginia , " " Plaine Description of the Barmudas , " 1618. " Smith's Description of New England " 1606. " State of the Colony and Affairs in Virginia , " 1616. " New England's Plantation , " by Hig ...
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... Lord Chatham and both the English and Americans , at that crisis , were so eager to possess it , that it was bought and read by one party with the same avidity that it was bought and destroyed by the other . It now RESTS IN PEACE : an ...
... Lord Chatham and both the English and Americans , at that crisis , were so eager to possess it , that it was bought and read by one party with the same avidity that it was bought and destroyed by the other . It now RESTS IN PEACE : an ...
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... Lord Essex for 191. 19s . The plates are described as being 430 in number . ‡ Nota bene : the work of Sir The delay of eighteen years , which occurred between the publication of the first and second volumes of this work , arose from the ...
... Lord Essex for 191. 19s . The plates are described as being 430 in number . ‡ Nota bene : the work of Sir The delay of eighteen years , which occurred between the publication of the first and second volumes of this work , arose from the ...
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Стр. 773 - The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Стр. 671 - ... For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past, For in your sweet dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more...
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Стр. 766 - THE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Стр. 524 - Yet delighted not men so much in her beauty, as in her pleasant behaviour. . For a proper wit had she, and could both read well and write ; merry in company, ready and quick of answer, neither mute nor full of babble, sometimes taunting without displeasure and not without disport.
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