Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 pagini |
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... poet's grace and wit , and most of all with his enthusiastic desire to visit Italy . On April 6 Milton had sent him a copy of ' Comus , ' with a letter announcing his immediate departure for the Con- tinent , to which the Provost ...
... poet's grace and wit , and most of all with his enthusiastic desire to visit Italy . On April 6 Milton had sent him a copy of ' Comus , ' with a letter announcing his immediate departure for the Con- tinent , to which the Provost ...
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... poet of the Hesperides are a series of plaintive notes to his rich uncle , Sir William Herrick ; and we may gather from them that this amiable relative's money paid for the piping of some of the most graceful lyrics in the English ...
... poet of the Hesperides are a series of plaintive notes to his rich uncle , Sir William Herrick ; and we may gather from them that this amiable relative's money paid for the piping of some of the most graceful lyrics in the English ...
Pagina 95
... Poet's ivy , as an ornament , perhaps , of lesser weight and trouble . But , Madam , these nightingales sung only in the spring ; it was the diversion of their youth ; as Ladies learn to sing , and play , when they are children , what ...
... Poet's ivy , as an ornament , perhaps , of lesser weight and trouble . But , Madam , these nightingales sung only in the spring ; it was the diversion of their youth ; as Ladies learn to sing , and play , when they are children , what ...
Pagina 96
... Poet as your servant , he became the most perfect Orator in the world . So that , not so much to have made verses , as not to give - over in time , leaves a man without excuse the former presenting us with an oppor- tunity at least of ...
... Poet as your servant , he became the most perfect Orator in the world . So that , not so much to have made verses , as not to give - over in time , leaves a man without excuse the former presenting us with an oppor- tunity at least of ...
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... poet of rising reputation , a Puritan like himself , and favourably recom- mended to him by the friendly family of Fairfax . John Milton to John Bradshaw . February 21 , 1652 . My Lord , -But that it would be an interruption to the ...
... poet of rising reputation , a Puritan like himself , and favourably recom- mended to him by the friendly family of Fairfax . John Milton to John Bradshaw . February 21 , 1652 . My Lord , -But that it would be an interruption to the ...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1880 |
Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ... William Baptiste Scoones Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
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Pagina 238 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Pagina 32 - XXIII. STUDIES IN SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. By J. Norman Lockyer, FRS With six photographic Illustrations of Spectra, and numerous engravings on Wood.
Pagina 21 - A Consul's Manual and Shipowner's and Shipmaster's Practical Guide in their Transactions Abroad. With Definitions of Nautical, Mercantile, and Legal Terms ; a Glossary of Mercantile Terms in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish ; Tables of the Money, Weights...
Pagina 28 - STEVENSON (Rev. WF). Hymns for the Church and Home. Selected and Edited by the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson. The most complete Hymn Book published. The Hymn Book consists of Three Parts : — I.
Pagina 24 - MORELL, JR— Euclid Simplified in Method and Language. Being a Manual of Geometry. Compiled from the most important French Works, approved by the University of Paris and the Minister of Public Instruction.
Pagina 267 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant. His leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend ; think how unpleasant a situation! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Pagina 32 - XVIII. The Nature of Light : With a General Account of Physical Optics.
Pagina 29 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood. Collected and edited by Lady Mary Vyner. Square crown 8vo. Cloth extra, price 5$.
Pagina 33 - Vera." 2 vols. Fifth Edition. Cloth, gilt tops, I2j. *„* Also a Cheaper Edition in i vol. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BLU ME (Major W.). The Operations of the German Armies in France, from Sedan to the end of the war of 187071. With Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff. Translated by the late EM Jones, Maj.
Pagina 12 - LIFE AND LETTERS OF THE LATE REV. FW ROBERTSON, MA, Edited by. I. Uniform with the Sermons. 2 vols. With Steel Portrait. Price Js. 6ti. II. Library Edition. 8vo. With Portrait. Price 12.-.