Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana: With Numerous Extracts Hitherto Unpublished. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Hughes   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The following tale may be recommended to the members of the anti-vivisection Society, and it would be all the more suitable for them as it bears the marks of exaggeration and imagination.

Willobie His Avisa: With an Essay Towards Its Interpretation. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Hughes   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Henry Willoughby. South of West Knoyle, and about seven miles away, is the town of Shaftesbury, which. Until the Reformation, was dominated by the great abbey round which it had grown. About the same distance to the south-west of West Knoyle is Wardour Castle, which in the time of Willobie was occupied, as it is to-day, by the noble family of Arundel. Sir Matthew Arundel, of Queen Elizabeth's reign, is the ancestor of the present Lord Arundel of Wardour. Four miles to the east of West Knoyle lies Hindon, formerly a rotten borough, for which Monk Lewis was once a member, and Disraeli once a candidate. Near this is Fonthill Park. The scene of Beckford's extravagance and folly, and in old times the property of the Marvyn family.

Fynes Moryson's Itinerary: Being a Survey of the Condition of Europe at the End of the 16th Century; With an Introduction and an Account of Fynes Moryson's Career. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Hughes   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I591. May 1st. Sailed from mouth of Thames, passing Heligoland to Stode (stade), then by land to Hamburg, Li'ibeck, Luneburg, back to Hamburg, and thence by Magde burg to Leipzig.