The Earlier History of English BooksellingS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, limited, 1889 - 341 oldal |
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7. oldal - Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Goldsmith's Deserted Village. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Gray's Elegy in a Churchyard. Keat's Eve of St. Agnes. Milton's L' Allegro. Poetry of Nature. Harrison Weir. Rogers
12. oldal - It supplies a want which has long been felt, and ought to be in the hands of all students of history.
3. oldal - BEUVE, of the French Academy. Essays in Mosaic. By THOS. BALLANTYNE. My Uncle Toby; his Story and his Friends. Edited by P. FITZGERALD. Reflections ; or, Moral Sentences and Maxims of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Socrates : Memoirs for English Readers from Xenophon's Memorabilia. By EDW. LEVIEN. Prince Albert's Golden Precepts.
17. oldal - Boston Transcript, Low's Standard Library of Travel and Adventure. Crown 8vo, bound uniformly in cloth extra, price Js. 6d. 1. The Great Lone Land. By Major WF BUTLER, CB 2. The Wild North Land. By Major WF BUTLER, CB 3.
146. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus; the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of...
307. oldal - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
5. oldal - The price of books became so high, that persons of a moderate fortune could not afford to purchase them. The Countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, Bishop of Halberstadt, two hundred sheep, five quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and millet.
166. oldal - THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
206. oldal - Mr. Lintot began in this manner: "Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
17. oldal - A Daughter of Heth. By W. BLACK. In Silk Attire. By W. BLACK. Kilmeny. A Novel. By W. BLACK. Lady Silverclale's Sweetheart.