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A bright and sunny introduction to the plant life cycle for little ones, featuring tabs to pull and surfaces to touch. Each page has a different interactive element to highlight the seed-to-plant-to-fruit transformation, and with a fifth color of ink throughout, this deluxe board...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays - Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the ligature or characters in Greek do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01In the comic movements of life, the chief dependence of society will ever be upon the drama; still the history of the English stage remains very imperfect, obscure, and unsatisfactory. Perhaps of no period are fewer...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02[Some account of this piece may be found in Haslewood's Preface, which precedes our text of "Thersites." It may be added, that whatever shortcomings may be apparent in these productions from a literary and dramatic point...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 03A New Enterlude, no lesse wittie then pleasant, entituled new Custome, devised of late, and for diverse causes nowe set forthe, neuer before this tyme imprinted. 1573. [Col.] Imprinted at London, in Fleete strete, by William...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05The Spanish Tragedie, Containing the lamentable end of Don Horatio and Bel-imperia: with the pitiful death of olde Hieronimo. Newly corrected and amended of such grosse faults as passed in the first impression. At London Printed...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 06[These five dramas were originally edited for the Roxburghe Club in 1851 by Mr J. Payne Collier, and are now incorporated with the present Collection precisely as they stand in the Roxburghe Club volume, with Mr...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07The text of the former 4, which is, I apprehend, the earlier impression, has been adopted in the present reprint, except where the readings of the other edition have been occasionally preferred, and where obvious typographical...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 08The initial letters J.T. are placed before this play as those belonging to the author of it. What his name was, or what his condition, are alike unknown. It was printed in 12mo, 1662, with two...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09[Of the author of "Lingua" nothing is known. By some of our earlier bibliographers the play was ascribed, without the slightest authority, to Anthony Brewer. In the former edition it was pointed out that Winstanley gave...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10Cyril Torneur is known only as an author, none of the dramatic biographers giving any account of him. Winstanley quotes the following distich from a contemporary poet, by which it appears that he was not held...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11Thomas May was the son of Sir Thomas May, of Mayfield, in the county of Sussex, Knight, a gentleman of an ancient and honourable family.[405] He was born in the year 1595, and received his early...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12[A MS. note in one of the former editions says: "This comedy is pleasingly and fluently written, and though it contains little poetry, is not without some eloquent and beautiful passages. The first scene is the...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 A MATCH AT MIDNIGHT. DRAMATIS PERSON. ACT I., SCENE I. ACT II., SCENE I. ACT III., SCENE I. ACT IV., SCENE I. ACT V., SCENE I. THE CITY NIGHTCAP. DRAMATIS PERSON. ACT I. ACT II....

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14The Rebellion; a Tragedy: As it was acted nine dayes together, and divers times since, with good applause, by his Majesties Company of Revells. Written by Thomas Rawlins. London: Printed by I. Okes, for Daniell Frere,...

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15 ELVIRA. EDITION. INTRODUCTION. DRAMATIS PERSON. ACT I. ACT II. ACT III. ACT IV. ACT V. THE MARRIAGE NIGHT. EDITION. DODSLEY'S PREFACE. DRAMATIS PERSON. ACTUS PRIMUS, SCENA PRIMA. ACTUS SECUNDUS, SCENA PRIMA. ACTUS TERTIUS. SCENA PRIMA....

A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, - Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.Be it remembered, that on the twenty-second day of October, A.D. 1825, and in the fiftieth...

A Select Glossary of the Texas RevolutionThe active period of the Texas Revolution lasted from October 2, 1835, to April 22, 1836. The capture of General Santa Anna, coupled with the decisive victory at San Jacinto, ended, for all practical purposes, the war with...

A Select Party The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the air, and invited a select number of distinguished personages to favor him with their presence. The mansion, though less splendid than many that have been situated in...

A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699This bibliography is a modest collection of titles relating to the life of seventeenth-century Virginia in its broadest interpretation. It has been compiled with the need in mind of the general reader and of the student who is just...