This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... So they say she is now leading apes--Bloudie Jack, And mends bachelors' smallclothes below. No learned editor that I am acquainted with has been able to suggest an explanation of this curious expression. Sir, --All my quarrels to you are kind ones, for, sure, 'tis alike impossible for me to be angry as for you to give ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... So they say she is now leading apes--Bloudie Jack, And mends bachelors' smallclothes below. No learned editor that I am acquainted with has been able to suggest an explanation of this curious expression. Sir, --All my quarrels to you are kind ones, for, sure, 'tis alike impossible for me to be angry as for you to give me the occasion; therefore, when I chide (unless it be that you are not careful enough of yourself, and hazard too much a health that I am more concerned in than my own), you need not study much for excuses, I can easily forgive you anything but want of kindness. The judgment you have made of the four lovers I recommended to you does so perfectly agree with what I think of them, that I hope it will not alter when you have read their stories. L'A mant Absent has (in my opinion) a mistress so much beyond any of the rest, that to be in danger of losing her is more than to have lost the others; LAmant non Aime-was an ass, under favour (notwithstandthe Princesse Cleobuline's letter); his mistress had caprices that would have suited better with our Amant Jaloux than with anybody else; and the Prince Artibie was much to blame that he outlived his belle Leontine. But if you have met with the beginning of the story of Amestris and Aglatides, you will find the rest of it in this part I send you now; and 'tis, to me, one of the prettiest I have read, and the most natural. They say the gentleman that writes this romance has a sister that lives with him, a maid, and she furnishes him with all the little stories that come between, so that he only contrives the main design; and when he wants something to entertain his company withal, he calls to her for it. She has an excellent fancy, sure, and a great wit; but, I am sorry to tell it you, they say 'tis the m...
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Used-Very Good. VG-hardback in grey & blue cloth with gilt. Revised edition, reprint, 1903. Edited by Edward Abbott Parry. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper; spine spotty with dull lettering; stain on back board.
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Used-Good. Good hardback. New and cheaper edition with portraits, edited by Edward Abbott Parry. Light brown quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine & elaborate gilt decoration on front board; mock-croc paper-covered boards; patterned end papers. 8pp of reviews & 12pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Free end papers a little browned; text generally clean with minor foxing; paper on back board scratched, with wear at board edges; some wear to spine.
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Very Good. 332pp. Printed paper label on tan spine. Illustrated. Extremities worn, boards scuffed, bookplate removed from front pastedown, else very good.