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... British dramatists , appears to have been as anxious as Sir Walter Scott , the greatest of British novelists , to found a family , although he does not require all his descendants to " HIS WILL . 103 SHAKESPEARE'S WILL.
... British dramatists , appears to have been as anxious as Sir Walter Scott , the greatest of British novelists , to found a family , although he does not require all his descendants to " HIS WILL . 103 SHAKESPEARE'S WILL.
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... British Navy . 8vo . 14s . Life and Voyages of Sir Francis Drake . With nume- rous Original Letters . Post 8vo . 2s . 6d . BEES AND FLOWERS . Two Essays . By Rev. Thomas James . Reprinted from the " Quarterly Review . " Fcap . 8vo . 1s ...
... British Navy . 8vo . 14s . Life and Voyages of Sir Francis Drake . With nume- rous Original Letters . Post 8vo . 2s . 6d . BEES AND FLOWERS . Two Essays . By Rev. Thomas James . Reprinted from the " Quarterly Review . " Fcap . 8vo . 1s ...
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... BRITISH CONSTITUTION and the RIGHTS OF PERSONS . By R. MALCOLM KERR , LLD . Post 8vo . 98 . BLAINE ( ROBERTON ) on the Laws of Artistic Copyright and their Defects , for Artists , Engravers , Printsellers , & c . 8vo . 3s . 6d . BOOK OF ...
... BRITISH CONSTITUTION and the RIGHTS OF PERSONS . By R. MALCOLM KERR , LLD . Post 8vo . 98 . BLAINE ( ROBERTON ) on the Laws of Artistic Copyright and their Defects , for Artists , Engravers , Printsellers , & c . 8vo . 3s . 6d . BOOK OF ...
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John Campbell Baron Campbell. BRITISH CLASSICS . A New Series of Standard English Authors , printed from the most correct text , and edited with elucida- tory notes . Published occasionally in demy 8vo . Volumes . Already Published ...
John Campbell Baron Campbell. BRITISH CLASSICS . A New Series of Standard English Authors , printed from the most correct text , and edited with elucida- tory notes . Published occasionally in demy 8vo . Volumes . Already Published ...
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... Outline of a proposed Government and Policy . 8vo . 12s . ( THOS . ) Short Lives of the British Poets . With an Essay on English Poetry . Post Svo . 6s . CASTLEREAGH ( THE ) DESPATCHES , from the commencement of PUBLISHED BY MR . MURRAY .
... Outline of a proposed Government and Policy . 8vo . 12s . ( THOS . ) Short Lives of the British Poets . With an Essay on English Poetry . Post Svo . 6s . CASTLEREAGH ( THE ) DESPATCHES , from the commencement of PUBLISHED BY MR . MURRAY .
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Page 75 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a {grammar-school ; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 88 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself : argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. Second Clo. But is this law ? First Clo. Ay, marry, is't ; crowner's quest law. Second Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out...
Page 106 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Page 27 - Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage...
Page 21 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Page 51 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 73 - O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words ! I marvel, thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus : thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 6 - BUNBURY'S (CJF) Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and Native Tribes of the Country.
Page 38 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips. Like man new made.
Page 93 - I will, a round, unvarnished tale deliver, Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic — For such proceedings I am charged withal — I won his daughter with.