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Methuen, 1894 - Women - 172 pages
 

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Page 3 - A most splendid and fascinating book on a subject of undying interest. The great feature of the book is the use the author has made of the existing portraits of the Caesars, and the admirable critical subtlety be has exhibited in dealing with this line of research. It
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Page 8 - Langbridge. BALLADS OF THE BRAVE: Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edited, with Notes, by Rev. F. LANGBRIDGE. Crown Svo. Buckram y. 6d. School Edition, 2s. 6d. 'A very happy conception happily carried out. These "Ballads of the Brave
Page 24 - 1t. EASY LATIN EXERCISES ON THE SYNTAX OF THE SHORTER AND REVISED LATIN PRIMER. With Vocabulary. Fourth Edition. Crown Svo. 2s. 6d. Issued with the consent of Dr. Kennedy. THE LATIN COMPOUND SENTENCE RULES AND EXERCISES.
Page 23 - late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. CICERO—Select Orations (Pro Milone, Pro Murena, Philippic II., In Catilinam). Translated by HED BLAKISTON, MA, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Oxford. 5*. Methuen's Commercial Series BRITISH COMMERCE AND COLONIES FROM ELIZABETH TO VICTORIA. By II. DE B.
Page 2 - Finely printed and bound in blue buckram. LUCIAN—Six Dialogues (Nigrinus, Icaro-Menippus, The Cock, The Ship, The Parasite, The Lover of Falsehood). Translated by S. T. IRWIN, MA, Assistant Master at Clifton; late Scholar of Exeter College, Oxford. y. 6d. SOPHOCLES—Electra and Ajax. Translated by EDA MORSHEAD, MA, late Scholar of New College, Oxford ; Assistant . Master at Winchester, 2s. 6d. TACITUS—Agricola and Germania. Translated by
Page 7 - These ballads are as wonderful in their descriptive power as they are vigorous in their dramatic force. There are few ballads in the English language more stirring than "The Ballad of East and West," worthy to stand by the Border ballads of Scott.'—Spectator. ' The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears ; the metres
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