... Van Dyck, was sold in 1681, by Daniel's widow. Sic transit gloria. After he has learned all these matters the amateur has still a great deal ...
... are marked, and thus he will at once be able to satisfy himself as to the exact height of any example which he encounters. Let us now assume that ...
... put on record the names of the godfathers and godmothers of baptised children. When these relations of gossip, or God's kin (as the word literally means), ...
... clean. The books of the period contain fewer of the old Puritan Christian names than we might have expected. We find, REPENTE Kytchens, so styled ...
... must have been a descendant of the monster that would have eaten Andromeda, and was slain by Perseus in the country of the blameless Ethiopians. Collections ...
... that Chu was at a wine party, and the negus (a favourite beverage of the Celestials) had done its work. His young friends betted Chu a bird's-nest ...
... to know what he was speaking about), supernaturals are to be found everywhere. This is the fact that makes life so puzzling and terrible to a child ...
... in ashes during the invasion of Xerxes. The time is the time of Pisistratus the successful tyrant the scene is the ancient temple, the stately house ...
... is quoted by Plutarch. Whatever the exact truth about the Orphic poems may be (the reader may pursue the hard and fruitless quest in Lobeck's 'Aglaophamus' ...
... Annius, when he had his hand in, did not publish choice extracts from the 'Libri Lintei,' the ancient Roman annals, written on linen and preserved ...
... were never recognised by the law. How old Ritson would have punished the old corrector, it is better only guessing, as the wicked say, according ...
... is not always easy to justify the caprices of taste. The presence or absence of half an inch of paper in the uncut margin of a book makes a difference ...
... Italian comedies. From these he took what suited him wherever he found it. He had plenty of classics, histories, philosophic treatises, the essays ...
... reputation, the Comtesse de Verrue, was represented in the Beckford sale by one of three copies of 'L'Histoire de Melusine,' of Melusine, ...
... These they changed, accordinging. [Another illustration titled: Le Pastissier Francois, MDCLV, title page]. to fancy, or the vicissitudes of ...
... to refuse credit to the ghastly narrative. His language, says Dibdin, in his account of the book-hunter's end, was, too frequently, the language ...
... par Charles Asselineau.' (Paris: Tardieu, MDCCCLX.). If this were an ordinary tract, I should have to tell how Blinton's eyes were opened, how he ...
... the dreaming eye, Ere Sleep the dreaming eye can seal. A kind of literary reel They dance how fair the bindings shine. Prose cannot tell them what ...
... M. Paul Lacroix supposes that this copy was offered to the Queen-Mother by Moliere himself. The frontispiece (Arnolphe preaching to Agnes) is ...
... best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named for him.Andrew Lang : Cock Lane ...