English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century, Volume 1Maggs Bros., 1926 - 876 pages |
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... dedication inscription ) and leaf of " Dramatis Personæ " entirely in his hand . The Opera was published anonymously the following year , and is written in verse throughout . 4 A POEM TO HIS MAJESTY , presented to the Lord Keeper ...
... dedication inscription ) and leaf of " Dramatis Personæ " entirely in his hand . The Opera was published anonymously the following year , and is written in verse throughout . 4 A POEM TO HIS MAJESTY , presented to the Lord Keeper ...
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... dedicated the book to Thomas , Duke of Norfolk . After the " Table " follows the Crest of the Duke , with some English verses beneath . A'KEMPIS ( Thomas ) -continued . 14 15 THE IMITATION MAGGS BROS . , 34 & 35 , Conduit Street ...
... dedicated the book to Thomas , Duke of Norfolk . After the " Table " follows the Crest of the Duke , with some English verses beneath . A'KEMPIS ( Thomas ) -continued . 14 15 THE IMITATION MAGGS BROS . , 34 & 35 , Conduit Street ...
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... dedication to Sir Thomas Mounson concealed the name of Robert Allot , but Mr. Collier , who devotes three pages to a ... Dedicated to John Bodenham and printed for Nicholas Ling the Stationer with his woodcut device on the title . There ...
... dedication to Sir Thomas Mounson concealed the name of Robert Allot , but Mr. Collier , who devotes three pages to a ... Dedicated to John Bodenham and printed for Nicholas Ling the Stationer with his woodcut device on the title . There ...
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... Dedicated to Robert Boyle . LI IOS F. ( J. , M.D. ) . A NEW LIGHT OF ALCHYMIE : Taken out of the fountaine of Nature , and Manuall Experience : To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur : Written by Micheel Sandivogius : i.e. ...
... Dedicated to Robert Boyle . LI IOS F. ( J. , M.D. ) . A NEW LIGHT OF ALCHYMIE : Taken out of the fountaine of Nature , and Manuall Experience : To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur : Written by Micheel Sandivogius : i.e. ...
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... dedicated to Gondibert's Mistress by Captain Jones and others , etc. FIRST EDITION . 8vo . Calf . London , Printed by express Order from the Wits , for N. Brook , 1658 . £ 10 10S At sig . B. 5 is a singularly quaint allusion to ...
... dedicated to Gondibert's Mistress by Captain Jones and others , etc. FIRST EDITION . 8vo . Calf . London , Printed by express Order from the Wits , for N. Brook , 1658 . £ 10 10S At sig . B. 5 is a singularly quaint allusion to ...
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Page 184 - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 374 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Page 346 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 728 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 102 - A solemn League and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Page 184 - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.
Page 346 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 76 - BUTLER (Samuel). — Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars : Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LLD Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts (from the designs of Hogarth).
Page 70 - Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof.
Page 373 - AB, do declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the Book entitled the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be sung or said in Churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.