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Pagina 280 - Life and Correspondence. Founded upon Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and fellow Academicians. By WALTER THORNBURY. A New Edition, considerably \ Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations in Colours, facsimiled from Turner's original Drawings. Taine's History of English Literature. Translated by HENRY VAN LAUN. Four Vols. small 8vo, 30^.
Pagina 286 - Baronetage* has become, as it were, an *institution* of this country; iu other words, it is indispensable, and cannot be done without, by any person having business in the great world. The authenticity of this valuable work, as regards the several topics to which it refers, has never been exceeded, and, consequently, it must be received as one of the most...
Pagina 281 - Jeatlreson takes a comprehensive view of the social history of the profession, and illustrates its course by a series of biographic and domestic sketches, from the feudal era down to the present day. The chapters on the Doctor as a bon-vivant, the generosity and parsimony, the quarrels and loves...
Pagina 279 - THIRTY YEARS' MUSICAL RECOLLECTIONS. By HK.NRY F. CHORLEY. 2 vols., with Portraits, 21s. " Every page of these volumes offers pleasant reminiscences of some thirty years...
Pagina 88 - Stainforth were ready to depart, a knock was heard at the door, and in the midst of everyone's wondering as to "who could be calling" at that unreasonable hour, Walter made his appearance.
Pagina 123 - I always pitied him for being given a stepmother in that way ; though, to be sure, he took good care to keep out of the way of all annoyances it might bring (he left that to you, my dear) — but now I've given him up.

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