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... Library , entitled Legal Bibliography , ' published at Philadelphia in 1847. The most remarkable fact about this is ... librarian there for many years . I have before me several of his letters addressed from Stowe during 1816-17 ; in one ...
... Library , entitled Legal Bibliography , ' published at Philadelphia in 1847. The most remarkable fact about this is ... librarian there for many years . I have before me several of his letters addressed from Stowe during 1816-17 ; in one ...
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... Library , in going through the file of The Northampton Mercury for 1824. It occurs in the issue of 27 March ( Saturday ) : - " Lately at Aberdeen James Moir , aged 101. He was brother - in - law to the veteran M'Dougal , who supported ...
... Library , in going through the file of The Northampton Mercury for 1824. It occurs in the issue of 27 March ( Saturday ) : - " Lately at Aberdeen James Moir , aged 101. He was brother - in - law to the veteran M'Dougal , who supported ...
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... LIBRARIES AND SMALLER LOTS OF BOOKS BOUGHT FOR CASH . ESTABLISHED 1849 . LIBRARY DEPARTMENT , 186 , Strand , London , W.C. FOR SALE . PROF . AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN'S BOOK OF ALMANACS . With an Index of Reference , by which the Almanac may ...
... LIBRARIES AND SMALLER LOTS OF BOOKS BOUGHT FOR CASH . ESTABLISHED 1849 . LIBRARY DEPARTMENT , 186 , Strand , London , W.C. FOR SALE . PROF . AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN'S BOOK OF ALMANACS . With an Index of Reference , by which the Almanac may ...
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... Library Edition , 12 vols . , 21. 158 .; and Thackeray , plates by Doyle and Du Maurier , 24 vols . , 127. 10s . Mr. E. Menken's Circular 178 contains James I.'s version of the Book of Common Prayer , 2. 58 . ( evidently issued ...
... Library Edition , 12 vols . , 21. 158 .; and Thackeray , plates by Doyle and Du Maurier , 24 vols . , 127. 10s . Mr. E. Menken's Circular 178 contains James I.'s version of the Book of Common Prayer , 2. 58 . ( evidently issued ...
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... LIBRARIES AND SMALLER LOTS OF BOOKS BOUGHT FOR CASH . ESTABLISHED 1849 . LIBRARY DEPARTMENT , 186 , Strand , London , W.C. FOR SALE . PROF . AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN'S BOOK OF ALMANACS . With an Index of Reference , by which the Almanac may ...
... LIBRARIES AND SMALLER LOTS OF BOOKS BOUGHT FOR CASH . ESTABLISHED 1849 . LIBRARY DEPARTMENT , 186 , Strand , London , W.C. FOR SALE . PROF . AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN'S BOOK OF ALMANACS . With an Index of Reference , by which the Almanac may ...
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Page 360 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves...
Page 29 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell. Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Page 291 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration...
Page 145 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit...
Page 145 - And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...
Page 180 - The Grand Old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up, And when they were down, they were down, And when they were only half-way up They were neither up nor down.
Page 394 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 115 - Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul wouldst reach ! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
Page 126 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Page 220 - ... started in their stalls, stamped, and shook their bridles, the men arose and clashed their armour, and the mortal, terrified at the tumult he had excited, dropped the horn from his hand. A voice like that of a giant, louder even than the tumult around, pronounced these words : — " Woe to the coward that ever he was born, That did not draw the sword before he blew the horn.