Life Of Winter Henry Davis

Creswell, John Angel James (1828-1891): Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis, by Hon. John A.J. Creswell. Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, February 22, 1866, Washington, Govt. Print. Off. 1866
Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.

1st Edition. Description: 43 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Davis, Henry Winter (1817-1865)--Life--Character. Biography. 43 pages

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Braybrooke, Neville: A Partridge in a Pear Tree, a Celebration for Christmas, The Newman Press 1965
G- Barbara Jones (and Children of the Henry Fawcett School

Pocket remains on the front endpapers, small school stamp, otherwise good. A book that contains many Christmas Poems and Stories that are harder to find in today's literature, and certainly those that would not be found all in one place. Also included are line drawings and color plates by the author and the children. Contents include - Dialogue Between Mary and Joseph from the Eighth Century, The Temptation of St. Joseph by W.H. Audin, The Foreshadowing by M.W. Mackail, Mantuan and Messiah by W.F. Jackson Knight, Bethlehem by Elizabeth Hamilton, Travel by Benjamin Disraeli, The Two Caves by Meriol Trevor, The Crib in Sicily by Nesta De Robeck, Waye not his Cribb by Robert Southwell, St. John the Baptist's Nativity by John Henry Newman, Who is Jesus Christ by J.C. Hedley, Jesu's Lyfelyne by Juliana Berner, Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, The Incarnation by William Langland, Wolcum Alle from the Fifteenth Century, To Men of Good Will by The Cloud of the Unknowing, A Patterne of Courtesie by Sir Thomas Malory, A Speech to the American Red Indians by William Penn, Cradle Lullabies from the Fourteenth Century, I Syng of a Maydyn from the Fifteenth Century, Christ, the Fleur-de-Lis from the Sixteenth Century, The Ship Carol from the Sixteenth Century, The Hollie and the Ivy from the Sixteenth Century, Hark! the Hearld Angels Sing by Charles Wesley, A Word on Carols and Waits by Ivor Brown, Sacred Flora by Alfred Dowling, Letters to Mr. Spectator by Richard Steele, The Reverend Doctor Opimiam Speaks by Thomas Love Peacock, Hard Frost by Andrew Young, Sudden Thaws by Gilbert White, Ducks and Geese by John Clare, The Turkey by George Crabbe, Provisions by Sir Thomas Fuller, Good Fare by Nicholas Breton, Wassayle by John Bale, Recipe for Stewed Turkey by Norman Douglas, How to Serve up Boar's Head by William King, A Dish for a Poet by Geroge Meredith, The Banker's Secret by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Seventeenth Century Charmes Traditional, A Winter Rainbow by S.T. Coleridge, A Rainbow Cuttlefish by Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Festive Solitude by George Gissing, No Solstice by Edward Burne-Jones, Polite Conversation by Jonathan Swift, Talking Makes it So by George Herbert, A Weather Pessemist by Sydney Smith, Sir Roger's Open House by Joseph Addison, Is here a Santa Claus? from The New York Sun 1987, Chanukah - or the Feast of Lights by David Daiches, A Candle for Lucia by Patricia Hutchines, Seventeenth Century Saying Traditional, Half Awake by Frances Cornford, Bird of Dawning by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Christmas: by Fr-nk H-rr-s by Max Beerbohn, A Capital Distribution by L.P. Hartley, Ghost Stories by Samuel Johnson, The Leaf-Sweeper by Muriel Spark, Christmas Eve 1012 by Robert Burton, Christmas Eve 1768 by James Woodforde, Christmas Eve 1903 by Arnold Bennett, When I Was Eleven by Anna Green Winslow, When I was Fourteen by W.N.P. Barbellion, The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing by Thomas Hardy, The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James, Hugh Walpole in Hollywood, 1935 by Rupert Hart-Davis, Dulce Domum by Kenneth Grahame, Come over Tommy We Won't Fire by Henry Williamson, On The Western Front by David Jones, Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue by Rovert Lowell, Dearest Mother by Walt Whitman, A Brief Prologue by Patrick Belliars, The Wakefield Shepherd's Second Play from the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries, Midnight by Thomas Dekker, Noel by Sandys Wason, The Frankelyn's Nowel by Geoffrey Chaucer, He Coudn't Spel by Atremus Ward, Archbishop Becket's Sermon 1170 by T.S. Eliot, The Cradle of True Love from the Fifteen Century, Son of the House by Frances Bellerby, Jewish Proverb Unknown, By Way of a Preface by George Y. Justin, On the Nativitie by William Dunbar, A Hymn on the Nativitie of my Saviour by Ben Jonson, The Nativity of our Lord by Christopher Smart, Nativity by Roy Campbell, The Swan by John Petty, A Thames Dolphin by John Stow, A London Celebration, 1762 by James Boswell, Bucharest, 1888 by Gertrude Bell, Memories I by L. Steni, Memories, II by Dylan Thomas, Mahershallalashbaz Tuck by B.J. Armstrong, December 25, 1870 by Francis Kilvert, Christmas Day by J. Meade Falkner, On the Atlantic by Herman Melville, Cooks at Sea by Benjamin Franklin, Peace by Henry Vaughan, Letters to Tom Moore: Xmas, 1920 by Lord Byron, Poem to Frances: Xmas, 1900 by G.K. Chesterton, Carol for his Darling by Derek Stanford, Never More Christmas by Marion Agnew, The Feast of Stephen by Kevin Nichols, Boxing Day, 1929 by Virginia Woolf, Celestial Fruit by George Eliot, Christmas-Tree Fruit by Charles Dickens, Dickens the Dancer by An Ameriican Young Lady; 1865, Traditional Joys by Barbara Jones, Christmas Boxes by John Timbs, Puritan Pressures by John Evelyn, Proverbial Tailpiece by John Ray, Accursed Season by Edmund Gosse, Oh, Father, What Nonsense by Mr Baxton, Disapproval at Howards End by E.M. Forster, Pantomania by W.M. Thackeray, Charity is Sagacious by Sir Thomas Browne, The Elephant Man by Sir Frederick Treves, Pantomime Played in a Charnel House by Lord George Sanger, Death of Harlequin by Alice Meynell, Gilbert and Sullivan by Lewis Carroll, Trials of an Author by Charles Morgan, In Restrospect in 1857 by Thomas Carlyle, Thanks for a Present by Hilaire Belloc, When I was Fifteen by Katherine Mansfield, Winterscape by D.H. Lawrence, The Field to the Snow by Lilian Bowes-Lon, Flowers of Frost by Edward Thomas, Life After All by Isobel English, Poem for the Epiphany of our Lord by Michael Fenwich, An Epiphany Resolution, 1663 by Samuel Pepys, The Robin by John Donne, Redbreast Tune by Emily Dickinson, Robyns and Starres by Hanry Hawkings, The Star-led Wisards Haste by John Milton, A Footnote by John Freeman, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh by I.. anthony, The Three Kings by H.W. Longfellow, Wine and Gifts by Vernon Watkins, Three Gipsies by Charles Causley, Notes on the Magians by Gerard Manley Hopkins, In Praise of the Camel by William R. Alger, Down with the Holly, Ivy, All by Robert Herrick, Time Waits for None by John Forster, A Hundred Not Out by James P. Kenion, The Magi Depart by W.B. YDialogue Between Mary and Joseph from the Eighth Century, The Temptation of St. Joseph by W.H. Audin, The Foreshadowing by M.W. Mackail, Mantuan and Messiah by W.F. Jackson Knight, Bethlehem by Elizabeth Hamilton, Travel by Benjamin Disraeli, The Two Caves by Meriol Trevor, The Crib in Sicily by Nesta De Robeck, Waye not his Cribb by Robert Southwell, St. John the Baptist's Nativity by John Henry Newman, Who is Jesus Christ by J.C. Hedley, Jesu's Lyfelyne by Juliana Berner, Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, The Incarnation by William Langland, Wolcum Alle from the Fifteenth Century, To Men of Good Will by The Cloud of the Unknowing, A Patterne of Courtesie by Sir Thomas Malory, A Speech to the American Red Indians by William Penn, Cradle Lullabies from the Fourteenth Century, I Syng of a Maydyn from the Fifteenth Century, Christ, the Fleur-de-Lis from the Sixteenth Century, The Ship Carol from the Sixteenth Century, The Hollie and the Ivy from the Sixteenth Century, Hark! the Hearld Angels Sing by Charles Wesley, A Word on Carols and Waits by Ivor Brown, Sacred Flora by Alfred Dowling, Letters to Mr. Spectator by Richard Steele, The Reverend Doctor Opimiam Speaks by Thomas Love Peacock, Hard Frost by Andrew Young, Sudden Thaws by Gilbert White, Ducks and Geese by John Clare, The Turkey by George Crabbe, Provisions by Sir Thomas Fuller, Good Fare by Nicholas Breton, Wassayle by John Bale, Recipe for Stewed Turkey by Norman Douglas, How to Serve up Boar's Head by William King, A Dish for a Poet by Geroge Meredith, The Banker's Secret by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Seventeenth Century Charmes Traditional, A Winter Rainbow by S.T. Coleridge, A Rainbow Cuttlefish by Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Festive Solitude by George Gissing, No Solstice by Edward Burne-Jones, Polite Conversation by Jonathan Swift, Talking Makes it So by George Herbert, A Weather Pessemis...

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Kelly, Franklin with Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis (Part 1); Franklin Kelly, Deborah Chotner, Ellen G. Miles, Robert Wilson Torchia (Part 2). American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, PARTS I and II ( PARTS 1 and 2; ART HISTORY, 19th CENTURY, ) in the National Gallery of Art (The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue) COMPLETE TWO (2) VOLUME SET.
0-89468-215-6, TWO VOLUMES, PARTS 1 and 2 - Corresponds to ISBN: 0-89468-215-6. FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED - PART 1: In the age of Darwin and John Ruskin, nineteenth-century American artists sought to imitate the truths of nature. Works such as Albert Bierstadt's Lake Lucerne, Frederic Edwin Church's Morning in the Tropics, Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life series, and Asher B. Durand's Forest in the Morning Light are examples the certainty of vision and faith in the nation's destiny that prevailed during this period of great expansion America. Winslow Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) , one of nine paintings by the artist in the Gallery's collection, is discussed, as are several works by Thomas Eakins, including The Biglin Brothers Racing, which inspired by the first pair-oared race in America. -- PART 2: In this, the second of two volumes devoted to the Gallery's holdings of nineteenth-century American paintings, more than 100 works are catalogued. Distinguished in part by the concentration of works by three prominent artists, Thomas Sully, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, the collection also includes John Quidor's The Return of Rip van Winkle, Albert Pinkham Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, John Henry Twachtman's Winter Harmony, and Rembrandt Peale's best-known work, Rubens Peale with a Geranium. Many of these paintings are reproduced in full color for the first time.
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Kelly, Franklin ; Deborah Chotner, Ellen G. Miles, Robert Wilson Torchia (Part 2). American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, PART II ( PART 2; ART HISTORY, 19th CENTURY, ) in the National Gallery of Art (The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue).
0894682547, FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED - PART 1: In the age of Darwin and John Ruskin, nineteenth-century American artists sought to imitate the truths of nature. Works such as Albert Bierstadt's Lake Lucerne, Frederic Edwin Church's Morning in the Tropics, Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life series, and Asher B. Durand's Forest in the Morning Light are examples the certainty of vision and faith in the nation's destiny that prevailed during this period of great expansion America. Winslow Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), one of nine paintings by the artist in the Gallery's collection, is discussed, as are several works by Thomas Eakins, including The Biglin Brothers Racing, which inspired by the first pair-oared race in America. -- PART 2: In this, the second of two volumes devoted to the Gallery's holdings of nineteenth-century American paintings, more than 100 works are catalogued. Distinguished in part by the concentration of works by three prominent artists, Thomas Sully, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, the collection also includes John Quidor's The Return of Rip van Winkle, Albert Pinkham Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, John Henry Twachtman's Winter Harmony, and Rembrandt Peale's best-known work, Rubens Peale with a Geranium. Many of these paintings are reproduced in full color for the first time.
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