The bibliographical and retrospective miscellany [by E.R. Poole.].

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John Wilson, 1830 - 160 páginas
 

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Página 40 - MUSÉE FRANÇAIS, recueil complet des - tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs qui composent la collection nationale, avec l'explication des sujets et des discours historiques sur la peinture, la sculpture et la gravure (par E.-Q.
Página 49 - ... the cudgels were snatcht out of my hands before I had fairly laid them down, I intending to have had but one more bout at the same weapons, and so have compleated the Rogue, but seeing the continuator hath allready added three parts to the former, and never (as far as I can see) will make an end of pestering the world with more volumes and large editions, I diverted my intention into this subject, the Art of wheedling...
Página 154 - By the favour of Edward he gained access to the libraries of all the great monasteries, where he shook off the dust from volumes preserved in chests and presses, which had not been opened for many ages.
Página 52 - ... wrote with elegance and correctness. She was greatly esteemed by learned foreigners. She is commended by Scaliger, and complimented by Nicholas May in a Latin epigram. She is placed by Mr. Evelyn, in his " Numismata," among learned women; and by Philips among female poets.
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Página 111 - Charles I., another quite different from that, both for men and women, in Queen Elizabeth's time; another under Henry the Eighth different from both ; and so backward all various. And in the several fashions of behaviour and conversation, there is as much mutability as in that of cloaths.
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Página 72 - one of them is a nip: I took him once into the two-penny gallery at the Fortune." It appears that the price of admission to the Lords
Página 138 - Horse, the busie man's best Recreation, the Opiate of Idle weariness ; the mind's best Ordinary ; Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality. Time spent (needlessly) from them, is consumed, but with them, twice gain'd.

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