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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Стр. 476
... seen " men and things " such as no European ever before beheld . In 1746 he reached Greenland , in the eighty - third and a half degree of north latitude , and there he saw neither land nor ice .- ( " maria un- dique et undique cœlum ...
... seen " men and things " such as no European ever before beheld . In 1746 he reached Greenland , in the eighty - third and a half degree of north latitude , and there he saw neither land nor ice .- ( " maria un- dique et undique cœlum ...
Стр. 496
... seen more than one copy , of both Dictionary and Works , bound in red morocco , and printed upon Large paper : but " procul , o procul ! " should be the address to it , by every considerate young man . The late Sir M. M. Sykes , Bart ...
... seen more than one copy , of both Dictionary and Works , bound in red morocco , and printed upon Large paper : but " procul , o procul ! " should be the address to it , by every considerate young man . The late Sir M. M. Sykes , Bart ...
Стр. 507
... seen many surviving traces of the liberality of this once far - famed family ; and especially of Antony and Raymund , who were singu- larly munificent to the churches and hospitals of that yet beautiful city . * THEVET'S Vrais ...
... seen many surviving traces of the liberality of this once far - famed family ; and especially of Antony and Raymund , who were singu- larly munificent to the churches and hospitals of that yet beautiful city . * THEVET'S Vrais ...
Стр. 508
... seen several beautiful copies on large paper . Let me here briefly make mention of the Theatrum Virorum eruditione Claro- rum of FREHER , published in two folio volumes , at Nuremberg , [ 1688 : and con- taining not fewer than 1310 ...
... seen several beautiful copies on large paper . Let me here briefly make mention of the Theatrum Virorum eruditione Claro- rum of FREHER , published in two folio volumes , at Nuremberg , [ 1688 : and con- taining not fewer than 1310 ...
Стр. 510
... seen , and which I could have never reasonably hoped to see . : I * I should apprehend this to be not far from the fact : at least to my experience Houbraken is as common on large as on small paper . have seen glorious copies of the ...
... seen , and which I could have never reasonably hoped to see . : I * I should apprehend this to be not far from the fact : at least to my experience Houbraken is as common on large as on small paper . have seen glorious copies of 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...
Стр. 541 - hard by the imperial table at the feast of the golden fleece/ watched with wonder the emperor's progress through ' sod beef, roast mutton, baked hare,' after which ' he fed well of a capon ;' drinking also, says the fellow of St. John's, 'the best that ever I saw;' he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of them, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine.* " Eating was now the only physical gratification which he could still enjoy, or was unable to resist.
Стр. 669 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
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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Стр. 660 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.