A Summer's Romance

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Roberts Brothers, 1872 - 314 páginas
 

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Página 16 - Deserves to be printed in letters of gold, and circulated in every house." — Chambers Journal. , n. About in the World. Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Página 17 - Journal. About in the World. Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life." " It is not easy to open it at any page without finding some handy idea." — Morning Post. Like unto Christ. A New Translation of the "De Imitatione Christi " usually ascribed to Thomas a Kempis, With a Vignette from an Original Drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Página 17 - Varia: Readings from Rare Books. Reprinted, by permission, from the Saturday Review, Spectator, &c. "The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, and the compiler is entitled to the gratitude of the public." — Observer. The Silent Hour : Essays, Original and Selected. By the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Página 9 - Round Table, With Biographical Introduction. The Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend. By Sir THOMAS BROWNE, Knt. Ballad Poetry of the Affections. By ROBERT BUCHANAN. Coleridge's Christabel, and other Imaginative Poems. With Preface by ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE. Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims. With Introduction by tbe Editor, and Essay on Chesterfield by M.
Página 18 - The chapters are so lively in themselves, so mingled with shrewd views of human nature, so full of illustrative anecdotes, that the reader cannot fail to be amused.
Página 31 - See Low's Copyright Edition. Tennyson's May Queen ; choicely Illustrated from designs by the Hon. Mrs. BOYLE. Crown 8vo. See
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Página 9 - ... attire, are brought nearer to us, become intelligible to us, and teach us lessons of humanity which we can learn from men only, and not from saints and heroes. Here lies the real value of real history. It widens our minds and our hearts, and gives us that true knowledge of the world and of human nature In all its phases which but few can gain in the short span of their own life, and in the narrow sphere of their friends and enemies. We can hardly imagine a better book for boys to read or for...
Página 14 - Choice Editions of Choice Books. New Editions. Illustrated by CW Cope, RA, T. Creswick, RA, Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, JC Horsley, ARA, George Hicks, R. Redgrave, RA, C.

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