Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography: Festschrift for Professor T.A. Birrell on the Occasion of His Sixtieth BirthdayGerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts |
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... Italian short - stories sold at every book - stall in St. Paul's Churchyard to dramatize and dramatize as a tragedy and not as a comedy . When we consider the climate of the times , recent public events , and what may be deduced about ...
... Italian short - stories sold at every book - stall in St. Paul's Churchyard to dramatize and dramatize as a tragedy and not as a comedy . When we consider the climate of the times , recent public events , and what may be deduced about ...
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... Italian story , Shakespeare had not deliberately set out to show how fatally the dice , whose throw decided the fate of his protagonists , would have been loaded , once the lead used was of the " condition militaire " . If we view the ...
... Italian story , Shakespeare had not deliberately set out to show how fatally the dice , whose throw decided the fate of his protagonists , would have been loaded , once the lead used was of the " condition militaire " . If we view the ...
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... Italy and he asked Holstenius to be his companion . The two of them left for Italy in December 1617 and during the greater part of 1618 they travelled together through Italy on foot . After this interlude Holstenius again took up his ...
... Italy and he asked Holstenius to be his companion . The two of them left for Italy in December 1617 and during the greater part of 1618 they travelled together through Italy on foot . After this interlude Holstenius again took up his ...
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... Italy ) on 10 June 1622 and by 27 June 1622 Holstenius had arrived in Oxford where he was admitted to the Bodleian Library . " Inspired by his friend Philip Cluver Holstenius had taken up the plan to edit a number of Greek geographers ...
... Italy ) on 10 June 1622 and by 27 June 1622 Holstenius had arrived in Oxford where he was admitted to the Bodleian Library . " Inspired by his friend Philip Cluver Holstenius had taken up the plan to edit a number of Greek geographers ...
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... Italy , where he spent about a year ( summer 1638 — summer 1639 ) . Milton paid two visits to Rome and it looks as if Lucas Holstenius was his chief contact there . Milton testifies to his important association with Holstenius in a long ...
... Italy , where he spent about a year ( summer 1638 — summer 1639 ) . Milton paid two visits to Rome and it looks as if Lucas Holstenius was his chief contact there . Milton testifies to his important association with Holstenius in a long ...
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Hans Bots Jean Leclerc as Journalist of the Bibliothèques His con | 53 |
E L Crane Richard Stanyhursts Translation of Vergils Aeneid | 67 |
Foot Some Bindings for Charles I | 93 |
Johan Gerritsen A Jonson ProofSheet Neptunes Triumph | 106 |
Caxtons trans | 119 |
J G Riewald The English Actors in the Low Countries 1585 | 157 |
A forgotten Benedictine translator | 179 |
Irène Simon Stillingfleets Sermon Preached Before the King | 195 |
Anna E C Simoni John Wodroephes Spared Houres | 233 |
Revolt in | 245 |
A Checklist of the Writings of T A Birrell | 261 |
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Page 74 - But now this long while, as he spake, athwart and wild she gazed, And here and there her eyeballs rolled, and strayed with silent look His body o'er; and at the last with heart of fire outbroke: " Traitor ! no Goddess brought thee forth, nor Dardanus was first Of thine ill race; but Caucasus on spiky crags accurst Begot thee; and Hyrcanian dugs of tigers suckled thee. Why hide it now? why hold me back lest greater evil be? For did he sigh the while I wept? his eyes — what were they moved? Hath...
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