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Page 348 - Foure Letters, and certaine Sonnets, especially touching Robert Greene and other parties by him abused...
Page 329 - The Historie of that wise and Fortunate Prince, Henrie of that Name the Seventh, King of England.
Page 287 - Hell beneath, & a mighty & awful change threatened the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face Across the Atlantic to France. Then the French Revolution commenc'd 10 in thick clouds, And My Angels have told me that seeing such visions I could not subsist on the Earth, But by my conjunction with Flaxman, who knows to forgive Nervous Fear.
Page 388 - PROVERBES ET DICTONS POPULAIRES, avec les Dits du Mercier et des Marchands, et les Crieries de Paris aux xm ° et xiv siècles, publiés d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothéque du Roi, avec dewi fac-similc.
Page 410 - Englands Parnassus : or The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons.
Page 286 - Heaven are my friends upon Earth. When Flaxman was taken to Italy, Fuseli was given to me for a season, And now Flaxman hath given me Hayley his friend to be mine, such my lot upon Earth. Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in childhood & shew'd me his face.
Page 411 - Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15 of March, 1603.
Page 369 - A LETTER FROM A BLACKSMITH, TO THE MINISTERS AND ELDERS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND IN WHICH THE MANNER OF PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THAT CHURCH is CONSIDERED, ITS INCONVENIENCES AND DEFECTS POINTED OUT, AND METHODS FOR THE REMOVING OF THEM HUMBLY PROPOSED.
Page 241 - A Defence of the Honorable Sentence and Execution of the Queene of Scots, exempled with analogies and diverse presidents of emperors, kings and popes ; with the opinions of learned men in the...
Page 350 - Proposals for publishing by subscription imitations from the Modern Latin Poets, with a Critical and Biographical Essay on the Restoration of Literature. By ST Coleridge, of Jesus College, Cambridge.