Excerpt from The John Rylands Library, Manchester: An Analytical Catalogue of the Contents of the Two Editions of an English Garner, Compiled by Edward Arber (1877-97), And Rearranged Under the Editorship of Thomas Seccombe (1903-04)This analysis was made for insertion in our own cumulative slip catalogue, and consequently follows our own cataloguing practice, which may be found to differ in some unimportant points from the Cataloguing Rules o...
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Excerpt from The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. 1: 1579-1631The Lyrical Miscellanies Robert Greene Thomas Lodge - Nicholas Breton - Thomas Campion - Richard Barnfield - Shakespeare's Poems.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct ...
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Excerpt from The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature, Vol. 2 of 2: Pope to SwinburneWherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there.In a preface, which is a model of clear and forcible writing, Defoe disclaims metrical correctness and explains his object, which is to convince his countrymen of the expediency of living up to their reputation of being good-natured, and to point out the absurdity of the...
Excerpt from In Praise of Oxford, Vol. 2: An Anthology in Prose and Verse, Life and MannersIt only remains to make the acknowledgements most rightly cus tomary in all anthologies. 'the booksellers of London, ' said Dr. Johnson, 'are generous, liberal-minded men, ' and the editors again beg to acknowledge most gratefully the ready kindness with which the publishers have permitted them to draw from books still pro tected by copyright. They there...
Lives of Twelve Bad Men is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes t...
Excerpt from Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1: Mainly During the 16th and 17th CenturiesProfessor Arber's businesslike and suggestive notes have usually been retained, and with these and the help of this Introduction it is hoped that students of the great age of discovery may find some use in a series of narratives so vivid in style, so photographic in their character-sketches, so admirably characteristic of the men and the times to which they refe...
Excerpt from The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. 2: 1579-1631, DramaLove's Labour's Lost The Comedy of Errors Two Gentlemen of Verona - Richard I I I -richard I I - T itns Androm'cns.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...
Excerpt from In Praise of Oxford: An Anthology in Prose and VerseThe present work owes its origin to the suggestion of one of those gifted friends whose day dreams sometimes take the form of book-titles. Travelling upon the London and North-Western Railway one evening in the summer of 1904, he saw the words 'In Praise of Oxford, ' in letters of gold upon the horizon somewhere above Harrow Weald Common. For some weeks after this I devoted all m...
