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C. Scribner's sons, 1878 - 347 páginas
 

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Página 3 - De Joinville's St. Louis, King of France. The Essays of Abraham Cowley, including all his Prose Works. Abdallah ; or the Four Leaves. By EDOUARD LABOULLAYE. Table-Talk and Opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte. Vathek : An Oriental Romance. By WILLIAM BECKFORD. The King and the Commons. A Selection of Cavalier and Puritan Songs.
Página 3 - 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.
Página 136 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead: That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Página 10 - The Gentle Life. Essays in aid of the Formation of Character of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen. Tenth Edition. "Deserves to be printed in letters of gold, and circulated in every house."— Chambers' Journal. About in the World. Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Página 25 - The book is admirable in every way We wish it every success." — Globe. "A very complete treatise Likely to take high rank as an authority on shooting.' —Daily News. Silent Hour (The). See
Página 3 - THE BAYARD SERIES, Edited by the late J. HAIN FRISWELL. Comprising Pleasure Books of Literature produced in the Choicest Style as Companionable Volumes at Home and Abroad. " We can hardly imagine better books for boys to read or for men to ponder over.
Página 131 - A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness...
Página 6 - Butler ( WF) The Great Lone Land; an Account of the Red River Expedition, 1869-70...
Página 28 - Textbook (A) of Harmony. For the Use of Schools and Students. By the late CHARLES EDWARD HORSLEY. Revised for the Press by WESTLEY RICHARDS and WH CALCOTT. Small post 8vo, cloth extra, y. 6d. Thebes, and its five Greater Temples. See ABNEY. Thomson (J.) The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China ; or, Ten Years' Travels, Adventures, and Residence Abroad.
Página 3 - BEUVE, of the French Academy. Essays in Mosaic. By THOS. BALLANTYNE. My Uncle Toby; his Story and his Friends. Edited by P. FITZGERALD. Reflections ; or, Moral Sentences and Maxims of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Socrates : Memoirs for English Readers from Xenophon's Memorabilia. By EDW. LEVIEN. Prince Albert's Golden Precepts.

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