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... Illustrations , including a copy of every known Print , and some original Photographs . Demy 8vo . 436 pp . with 41 pages of Index . Price 188. post free . RICHARD HOLMES , Pontefract . TO SOLICITORS . - The Advertiser , unarticled ...
... Illustrations , including a copy of every known Print , and some original Photographs . Demy 8vo . 436 pp . with 41 pages of Index . Price 188. post free . RICHARD HOLMES , Pontefract . TO SOLICITORS . - The Advertiser , unarticled ...
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SOCIETY OF FRIENDLY BROTHERS . - Dr . Oliver's ' Preston's Illustrations of Masonry , ' seventeenth edition , London , 1861 , p . 387 , contains the follow - your readers who will be kind enough to send me ing : - " An Act of Parliament ...
SOCIETY OF FRIENDLY BROTHERS . - Dr . Oliver's ' Preston's Illustrations of Masonry , ' seventeenth edition , London , 1861 , p . 387 , contains the follow - your readers who will be kind enough to send me ing : - " An Act of Parliament ...
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... Illustrated Family Journal ( London , J. Clayton , 1845 ) , the two numbers , 20 and 21 , for July 19 and 26 , are partly devoted to ' Illustrations of the Genius of the late Thomas Hood . ' A foot - note says , " From the Illuminated ...
... Illustrated Family Journal ( London , J. Clayton , 1845 ) , the two numbers , 20 and 21 , for July 19 and 26 , are partly devoted to ' Illustrations of the Genius of the late Thomas Hood . ' A foot - note says , " From the Illuminated ...
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... Illustrated Family Journal ( London , J. Clayton , 1845 ) , the two numbers , 20 and 21 , for July 19 and 26 , are partly devoted to ' Illustrations of the Genius of the late Thomas Hood . ' A foot - note says , " From the Illuminated ...
... Illustrated Family Journal ( London , J. Clayton , 1845 ) , the two numbers , 20 and 21 , for July 19 and 26 , are partly devoted to ' Illustrations of the Genius of the late Thomas Hood . ' A foot - note says , " From the Illuminated ...
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... Illustrations by Cruikshank , Leech , Tenniel , Barham , and Du Maurier , Re- engraved on Wood for this Edition by George Pearson . In crown Svu . red cloth , 68 . Also bound in gold cloth , with paper label , same price . From the ...
... Illustrations by Cruikshank , Leech , Tenniel , Barham , and Du Maurier , Re- engraved on Wood for this Edition by George Pearson . In crown Svu . red cloth , 68 . Also bound in gold cloth , with paper label , same price . From the ...
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Page 160 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
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Page 33 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 82 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 82 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 82 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest...
Page 225 - royal bird' ? Gone down, it seems, to Scotland to be fiddled Unto by Sawney's violin, we have heard : 'Caw me, caw thee' — for six months hath been hatching This scene of royal itch and loyal scratching.
Page 41 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands ; And let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 50 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
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