Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 2

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G. Bell & sons, 1904

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Page 17 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Page 21 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640, 2 Maps and upwards of 400 Woodcuts.
Page 4 - BROWNE'S (Sir Thomas) Works Edited by Simon Wilkin. 3 vols y, 6d. each. BURKE'S Works. 8 vols. 3.*. 6d. each. I. — Vindication of Natural Society — Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, and various Political Miscellanies. II. — Reflections on the French Revolution — Letters relating to the Bristol Election — Speech on Fox's East India Bill, &c.
Page 14 - Death by the Ancients. Translated by EC Beasley and Helen Zimmern. Edited by Edward Bell, MA With a Frontispiece of the Laokoon group. 3*. 6d. LILLY'S Introduction to Astrology.
Page 10 - GUIZOT'S History of the English Revolution of 1640. From the Accession of Charles I. to his Death. Translated by William Hazlitt.
Page 10 - GRIMM'S TALES. With the Notes of the Original. Translated by Mrs. A. Hunt. With Introduction by Andrew Lang, MA 2 vols. 3*. 6d, each. - Gammer Grethel; or, German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories. Containing 42 Fairy Tales. Trans, by Edgar Taylor. With numerous Woodcuts after George Cruikshank and Ludwig Grimm. 3*.
Page 16 - MILTON'S Prose Works. Edited by JA St. John. 5 vols. y. 6d. each. Poetical Works, with a Memoir and Critical Remarks by James Montgomery, an Index to Paradise Lost, Todd's Verbal Index to all the Poems, and a Selection of Explanatory Notes by Henry G. Bohn. Illustrated with 120 Wood Engravings from Drawings by W. Harvey. 2 vols.
Page 16 - Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places.
Page 2 - BELL (Sir Charles). The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as connected with the Fine Arts.
Page 20 - A. Lodge, MA Together with the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy (a short Essay).

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