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... translation now , perhaps , lost . In 1741 Charles Balguy , M.B. , a physician practising in Peterborough , published anonymously a translation of the ' Decameron . ' This he dedi- cated to his friend Bache Thornhill , of Stanton , in ...
... translation now , perhaps , lost . In 1741 Charles Balguy , M.B. , a physician practising in Peterborough , published anonymously a translation of the ' Decameron . ' This he dedi- cated to his friend Bache Thornhill , of Stanton , in ...
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... translation of Hector Boece's one is Antipodes , so that the company is rather ' Scotorum Historia ' the following passage occurs . mixed . One almost expects to find Moon - rakers , The writer is speaking of the early traffic between ...
... translation of Hector Boece's one is Antipodes , so that the company is rather ' Scotorum Historia ' the following passage occurs . mixed . One almost expects to find Moon - rakers , The writer is speaking of the early traffic between ...
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... translation ) , gives the story of the Stone of Fate and of Eochaidh , King of Erin , as follows . The tribe of Danann , on leaving Greece , where they had learnt necromancy and other arts , went to Norway , where they settled ...
... translation ) , gives the story of the Stone of Fate and of Eochaidh , King of Erin , as follows . The tribe of Danann , on leaving Greece , where they had learnt necromancy and other arts , went to Norway , where they settled ...
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... TRANSLATION OF THE ' ILIAD ' ( 6th S. lished in six volumes , 1715-20 , quarto and folio . The quarto edition contains eight pages on which the names of the subscribers are given . the folio edition which I have seen did not contain ...
... TRANSLATION OF THE ' ILIAD ' ( 6th S. lished in six volumes , 1715-20 , quarto and folio . The quarto edition contains eight pages on which the names of the subscribers are given . the folio edition which I have seen did not contain ...
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... translated out of the Almaine speche into English by Jhon . Hollybush . ' Im- printed at Collen by Arnold Birckman . In ... translation of the poem , which I fancy would lose its force if rendered in another language . CAROLINE STEGGALL ...
... translated out of the Almaine speche into English by Jhon . Hollybush . ' Im- printed at Collen by Arnold Birckman . In ... translation of the poem , which I fancy would lose its force if rendered in another language . CAROLINE STEGGALL ...
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Página 1 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 15 - What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and grovelling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
Página 168 - An Old Scots Brigade. Being the History of Mackay's Regiment, now incorporated with the Royal Scots. With an Appendix containing many Original Documents connected with the History of the Regiment. By JOHN MACKAY (late) OF HERRIESDALE.
Página 22 - The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world...
Página 314 - THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND OF THE COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE AND ETON, by the late ROBERT WILLIS, MA FRS, Jacksonian Professor in the University of Cambridge. Edited with large Additions and brought up to the present time by JOHN WILLIS CLARK, MA, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Página 400 - ... poking his nose between the pages of some old volume in order to see what he can appropriate. They will not allow one to say "Ring the bell" without finding that we have taken it from Sir P. Sidney, or even to use such a simple expression as the ocean "roars," without finding out the precise verse in Homer or Horace from which we have plagiarised it (fact!).
Página 4 - England at the end of the last century and at the beginning of this.
Página 27 - Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey.
Página 240 - England, beginneth the 25th of March, the same day supposed to be the first day upon which the world was created, and the day when Christ was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary...
Página 22 - Frere's words are well-known and memorable: "....if not particularly objects of curiosity in themselves... must I think be considered in that light, from the situation in which they were found They are, I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals.