English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century, Part 2Courier Press, 1926 |
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... numerous finely executed woodcut engravings . Small 8vo . Original vellum . Anno , 1585 . This is probably the First Edition with these engravings . THE EARLIEST PICTURE OF AN ENGLISH THEATRE . 16 ALABASTER ( William ) . ROXANA TRAGÆDIA ...
... numerous finely executed woodcut engravings . Small 8vo . Original vellum . Anno , 1585 . This is probably the First Edition with these engravings . THE EARLIEST PICTURE OF AN ENGLISH THEATRE . 16 ALABASTER ( William ) . ROXANA TRAGÆDIA ...
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... numerous body of opponents , the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a runagate Scot did take away the adoration or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament ; by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last communion book ; so much ...
... numerous body of opponents , the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a runagate Scot did take away the adoration or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament ; by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last communion book ; so much ...
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... numerous plates , including an engraving of the new St. Paul's Cathedral then being erected . The Third Editon Corrected and Enlarged . Small 4to . Old calf . London , Printed for N. Simmons , 1676 . £ 2 155 LARGE PAPER COPY . 45 ...
... numerous plates , including an engraving of the new St. Paul's Cathedral then being erected . The Third Editon Corrected and Enlarged . Small 4to . Old calf . London , Printed for N. Simmons , 1676 . £ 2 155 LARGE PAPER COPY . 45 ...
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... numerous ailments : how he cured himself of an ague by hanging three spiders about his neck , and how on the ever - memorable 14 Feb. 1677 " I took cold in my right ear . " 56 ASTELL ( Mary ) . AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF The Female Sex . In ...
... numerous ailments : how he cured himself of an ague by hanging three spiders about his neck , and how on the ever - memorable 14 Feb. 1677 " I took cold in my right ear . " 56 ASTELL ( Mary ) . AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF The Female Sex . In ...
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... numerous Notes , and further a long and most interesting Autograph letter of Gadbury's on Astrological Subjects . HEYDON ( Sir Christopher ) . A DEFENCE OF JUDICIALL ASTROLOGIE , in answer to a Treatise lately published by Mr. John ...
... numerous Notes , and further a long and most interesting Autograph letter of Gadbury's on Astrological Subjects . HEYDON ( Sir Christopher ) . A DEFENCE OF JUDICIALL ASTROLOGIE , in answer to a Treatise lately published by Mr. John ...
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Page 176 - 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 176 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 362 - 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 458 - BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN, Compos'd at several times. Printed by his true Copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. HENRY LAWES, Gentleman of the Kings Chappel, and one of His Majesties Private Musick.
Page 98 - 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 607 - SENECA'S MORALS. BY WAY OF ABSTRACT TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DISCOURSE UNDER THE TITLE OF AN AFTER-THOUGHT. BY SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE, KNT.
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Page 715 - Imp. 4to. -Suckling (Sir John). FRAGMENTA AUREA : a Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces, written by. And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his own copies.
Page 728 - Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Page 362 - ... 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.