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... NICHOLS , BASKER- VILLE , BULMER , FOULIS , would claim a prominent place , not forgetting WALPOLE and his Strawberry- hill Press . BEWICK , the reviver of wood - engraving , would open a new era of book illustration . BOYDELL would ...
... NICHOLS , BASKER- VILLE , BULMER , FOULIS , would claim a prominent place , not forgetting WALPOLE and his Strawberry- hill Press . BEWICK , the reviver of wood - engraving , would open a new era of book illustration . BOYDELL would ...
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... Nichols ' Literary Anecdotes ; ' which memoir , in some respects , appears to show that modern biography has its mythical periods as well as ancient history . Guy's birthplace is very exactly defined by Maitland . " He was born in the ...
... Nichols ' Literary Anecdotes ; ' which memoir , in some respects , appears to show that modern biography has its mythical periods as well as ancient history . Guy's birthplace is very exactly defined by Maitland . " He was born in the ...
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... . Maitland , who eschews all romance , has not a word of this story , which I find in Nichols . After the relation of the fortunate contract with the University ยท of Oxford , he thus pursues , in his CHAP . I. 15 THOMAS GUY .
... . Maitland , who eschews all romance , has not a word of this story , which I find in Nichols . After the relation of the fortunate contract with the University ยท of Oxford , he thus pursues , in his CHAP . I. 15 THOMAS GUY .
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... Nichols ' ' Literary Anecdotes : " The bulk of his fortune was acquired by purchasing seamen's tickets during Queen Anne's wars , and by South - Sea Stock in the memorable year 1720. " The slightest acquaintance with English history ...
... Nichols ' ' Literary Anecdotes : " The bulk of his fortune was acquired by purchasing seamen's tickets during Queen Anne's wars , and by South - Sea Stock in the memorable year 1720. " The slightest acquaintance with English history ...
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... Nichols , in 1817. John Dunton's " speech is like a tangled chain , nothing impaired , but all disordered ; " so I will endeavour to arrange some of its more inte- resting portions into some method . From an early age to his ninth year ...
... Nichols , in 1817. John Dunton's " speech is like a tangled chain , nothing impaired , but all disordered ; " so I will endeavour to arrange some of its more inte- resting portions into some method . From an early age to his ninth year ...
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