History of English Literature: From the fourteenth century to the death of Surrey, ed. by A. Brandl. tr. by I. Dora Schmitz

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Page 22 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols.
Page 222 - And then may chance thee to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent, To cause thy lovers' sigh and swoon : Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute ! this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that I begun ; Now is this song both sung and past ; My lute ! be still, for I have done.
Page 3 - Cribbage, Loo, Vingt-et-un, Napoleon, Newmarket, Pope Joan, Speculation, &c., &c. BOND'S A Handy Book of Rules and Tables for verifying Dates with the Christian Era, &c. Giving an account of the Chief Eras and Systems used by various Nations ; with the easy Methods for determining the Corresponding Dates. By JJ Bond.
Page 251 - Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo' Than I with pen have skill to show.
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Page 16 - MOTLEY (JL). The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By John Lothrop Motley. New Edition, with Biographical Introduction by Moncure D. Conway. 3 vols.
Page 250 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 4 - Charge against Warren Hastings — Political Letters on the American War, on a Regicide Peace, to the Empress of Russia. VI. — Miscellaneous Speeches — Letters and Fragments — Abridgments of English History, &c. With a General Index. VII. & VIII.— Speeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings ; and Letters.
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