The American Bibliopolist, Volumen6J. Sabin & Sons., 1874 |
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... Drawings , Illuminations , Photographs , etc. , etc. We now publish the finest as- sortment ever placed before the public , and our prices are marked down so low as to defy all competition . No one sub- scribes for a premium - giving ...
... Drawings , Illuminations , Photographs , etc. , etc. We now publish the finest as- sortment ever placed before the public , and our prices are marked down so low as to defy all competition . No one sub- scribes for a premium - giving ...
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... drawings are , generally speaking , so well known that we need not write at length about them . Few who care for such matters at all have forgotten the humor , strong character , and piquant satire of many of these portraits , in ...
... drawings are , generally speaking , so well known that we need not write at length about them . Few who care for such matters at all have forgotten the humor , strong character , and piquant satire of many of these portraits , in ...
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... drawing on the lithographic stone . On one of these occasions Mr. Haupstaengl took Senefelder's portrait on a prepared stone , which he had previously concealed in the drawer of his work- table , distracting his attention by frequently ...
... drawing on the lithographic stone . On one of these occasions Mr. Haupstaengl took Senefelder's portrait on a prepared stone , which he had previously concealed in the drawer of his work- table , distracting his attention by frequently ...
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... drawing of character is very remarkable . Notwithstanding the multiplicity of his personages , there are not two which in any sense resemble each other . The faculty is very rare of being able to transfer the lin- eaments of commonplace ...
... drawing of character is very remarkable . Notwithstanding the multiplicity of his personages , there are not two which in any sense resemble each other . The faculty is very rare of being able to transfer the lin- eaments of commonplace ...
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... drawing - room . " Or is there to be found in all fiction a scene more pathetic than the one describing the death of Colonel Newcome ? To have written that alone would have deservedly made any name great . Though it is doubt- less ...
... drawing - room . " Or is there to be found in all fiction a scene more pathetic than the one describing the death of Colonel Newcome ? To have written that alone would have deservedly made any name great . Though it is doubt- less ...
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Página 64 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Página 59 - M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Página 19 - EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH, LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name was ELIZABETH, The other let it sleep with death : Fitter, where it died, to tell, Than that it lived at all. Farewell 1 SONG.
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Página 30 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Página 44 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Página 64 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? 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