Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, Volumen 12

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Charles Whittingham, 1869
Includes list of members.
 

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Página 164 - And he look'd confoundedly flurried, As he bolted away without paying his shot, And the Landlady after him hurried. We saw him again at dead of night, When home from the Club returning ; We twigg'd the Doctor beneath the light Of the gas-lamp brilliantly burning.
Página 105 - J'arrive, je l'appelle, et, me tendant la main, Il ouvre le guichet, qu'il referme soudain. « Le roi, dit-il alors, me jette à Saint-Lazare; « Prenez soin entre vous du malheureux Tarare. « Cher ami, si le prince, un jour plus indulgent, « Veut bien de cet affront me payer en argent, « Pour me faire oublier quelques jours d'abstinence, « Dis-lui qu'il me délivre une bonne ordonnance;
Página 26 - Ann ofDw mark, and the Heirs of Her Body , and for default of fuch Iflue, to the Heirs of the Body of the faid Prince of Orange.
Página 104 - S'élève avec fracas un mémoire invincible : Le volume s'approche et vomit à nos yeux, Parmi de noirs flots d'encre, un monstre furieux*.
Página 155 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals, and small acid tiff, (Wretched repast!) my meagre corpse sustain: Then solitary walk, or doze at home...
Página 107 - Roi pompeusement parée : Ses erreurs n'avaient point abattu sa fierté ; Même il usait encor de ce style apprêté, Dont il eut soin de peindre et d'orner son ouvrage Pour éviter des ans l'inévitable outrage. Tremble! ma noble fille et trop digne de moi...
Página 7 - Palace, Oxford ; Lavington, Petworth. Perry, Sir Thomas Erskine, 36, Eaton Place, Belgrave Square. Powis, Earl of, 45, Berkeley Square ; Powis Castle, Welshpool ; Waicot, Bishopscastle, Salop.
Página 156 - An horrid chasm disclose, with orifice Wide, discontinuous ; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Página 155 - Things unattempted yet, in prose or rhyme," A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in...
Página 16 - No man has a right to monopolize more than he can enjoy ; what the rich give to the poor, whilst millions are starving, is not a perfect favour, but an imperfect right.

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