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Page 654 - HE clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 647 - Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies Histories, and Tragedies Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before (!) Printed in Folio : Viz.
Page 363 - El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Page 247 - A just and modest vindication of the Scots design, for the having established a colony at Darien.
Page 161 - Ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine, declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others.
Page 186 - A Series of Groups, Illustrating the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany. By George Lewis. Containing sixty plates suitable to Illustrate the Original Edition of the Tour in France and Germany.
Page 283 - An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign against Quebec in 1775.
Page 470 - Choice Examples of Art Workmanship, selected from the Exhibition of Ancient and Mediaeval Art at the Society of Arts.
Page 479 - A viewe of some part of such publike wants and disorders as are in the service of God within her Maiestie's countrie of Wales, together with an humble Petition, unto this high Court of Parliament, for their speedy redresse.
Page 361 - A true and full copy of that which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed before under the name of Religio Medici