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. 1781 Excerpt: ...reads Tasso or Malherbe 181S ' Chuses a step that is superbe. "Some giddy creatures, as is shunning "Something diflik'd, arc always running: "Some prance like Frenchwomen, who ride, "As our liseguard men, all astride: 1820 "But each os these have decoration "According to their assectation. "That dance is gracesul and ...
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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. 1781 Excerpt: ...reads Tasso or Malherbe 181S ' Chuses a step that is superbe. "Some giddy creatures, as is shunning "Something diflik'd, arc always running: "Some prance like Frenchwomen, who ride, "As our liseguard men, all astride: 1820 "But each os these have decoration "According to their assectation. "That dance is gracesul and will please "Where all the motions glide with ease. "We to the skilsul theatre 182, ? "This seeming want os art preser. "'Tis no small art to give direction "How to suit kno'ts to each complexion, "How to adorn the breast and head "With blue, white, cherry, pink, or red. 1830 ' As the morn rises, so that day "Wear purple, iky-colour, or gray; Ey the manner in which Taflb and MalTierbe are mentioned by Dr King, they seem not to have been the morl fashionable authors os that age. Our Author has translated what he calls Au admirable Ode os Malhorbe. "Your black at Lent, your green in May, "Your silamot when leaves decay. "All colours in the summer shine: "The nymphs should be like gardens sine. "It is the sashion nowadays "That almost ev'ry lady plays: ' Basset and piquet grow to be "The subject os our comedy: "But whether we diversion seek "In these, in comet, or in gleek, "Or ombre, where true judgment can "Disclose the sentiments os man, "Let's have a care how we discover, "Especially besore a lover, "Some passions which we should conceal, "But heats osphy too ost' reveal; "For be the matter small or great "There is like abhorrence sor a cheat. "There is nothing spoils a woman's graces "Like peevishness and making saces; "Then angry words and rude discourse "You may be...
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Good. First edition from the "Bell's Edition" of The Poets of Great Britain" series (XLV, XLVI). 2 volumes. 12mo, half leather, with raised bands and marbled boards, rubbed. Engraved frontis and title page. Engraved bookplate of Henry Burnaby Greene, Vicar of Longparish Hampshire England for over 63 years, his ministry coincided with the revivalist years of the Oxford Movement with its high Anglican ideals. Adjacent is the armorial bookplate of William Folliot Powell. John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher. Originally a bookseller and printer, he also innovated in typography, being responsible for an influential font that omitted the long s. He was also noted for drawing the reading public to "the best literature" by commissioning attractive art work to accompany the printed work. From 1769, Bell owned a bookshop in the Strand, London, the "British Library". His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, much less than what was commonly charged. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges to apply for international shipping.