The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Lockwood & Company, 1856 |
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Seite 20 - Minstrel. Channing's Essays. 2 vols. Chapone's Letters on the Mind. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, &c. *Cowper's Poems. 2 vols. Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia. Falconer's Shipwreck. Fenelon's Reflections. *Gems of Anecdote. *Gems of Wit and Humour. *Gems from American Poets. *Gems from Shakspeare. *Gems of American Wit. *Gems of British Poets— 1st Ser. Chaucer to Goldsmith. 2il „ Falconer to Campbell. 3d „ Living Authors. 4th „ Sacred. *Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefleld. Goldsmith's Essays....
Seite 17 - BRANDE.-A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART; comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use.
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Seite 5 - JOHN BURNET, FRS Landscape Painting in Oil Colours explained, in Letters on the Theory and Practice of the Art. Illustrated by 14 Plates of Examples from the several Schools. By JOHN BURNET, FRS Author of
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