Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography, Volumes 5-6G. D. Smith, 1903 - Bibliography |
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... its purchase . Our English friends have learned the art of skillful innuendo . When you take from its resting place on the shelf some precious volume which causes the heart to palpitate , and. Reflections of by Book Lover a.
... its purchase . Our English friends have learned the art of skillful innuendo . When you take from its resting place on the shelf some precious volume which causes the heart to palpitate , and. Reflections of by Book Lover a.
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... friend who is occupying himself with translating extracts from Emerson into Greek , ' to see how they sound , ' he says- but of course they will sound well in any language . I am staying on a visit here at the house of Charles Mackay ...
... friend who is occupying himself with translating extracts from Emerson into Greek , ' to see how they sound , ' he says- but of course they will sound well in any language . I am staying on a visit here at the house of Charles Mackay ...
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... Friends . Essays in Epistolary Parody . By Andrew Lang . 16mo . , cl . , Lond . , 1890 . Contains " From Mrs. Gamp to Mrs. Prig , " pp . 42-48 ; " From Montague Tigg , Esq . , to David Crimp , " pp . 102-111 ; and various other ...
... Friends . Essays in Epistolary Parody . By Andrew Lang . 16mo . , cl . , Lond . , 1890 . Contains " From Mrs. Gamp to Mrs. Prig , " pp . 42-48 ; " From Montague Tigg , Esq . , to David Crimp , " pp . 102-111 ; and various other ...
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... friends are over for the season , is the only time to sell in , that while nearly every week - day in these months sees Mr. Hodge in his rostrum , for the rest of the year he has very little to do . Whether sellers are right in their ...
... friends are over for the season , is the only time to sell in , that while nearly every week - day in these months sees Mr. Hodge in his rostrum , for the rest of the year he has very little to do . Whether sellers are right in their ...
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... friends . The first of the two illustrations here given of sales at Bangs's , is re- produced from a contemporary illus- trated paper , and the second from a flash - light photograph taken during the Sewall sale , by Rockwood , and ...
... friends . The first of the two illustrations here given of sales at Bangs's , is re- produced from a contemporary illus- trated paper , and the second from a flash - light photograph taken during the Sewall sale , by Rockwood , and ...
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Page 106 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 175 - Tis true, with shame and grief I yield, Thou like the van first took'st the field, And gotten hast the victory In thus adventuring to die Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats my approach, tells thee I come ; And slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee.
Page 140 - Since honour from the honourer proceeds, How well do they deserve, that memorize And leave in books for all posterities The names of worthies and their virtuous deeds ; When all their glory else, like water-weeds Without their element, presently dies, And all their greatness quite forgotten lies, And when and how they flourished no man heeds ! How poor remembrances are statues, tombs And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closed rooms, Where but a few behold them, in respect...
Page 9 - To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books ; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness.
Page 163 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 7 - Well! that is because any writer worth translating at all has winnowed and searched through his vocabulary, is conscious of the words he would select in systematic reading of a dictionary, and still more of the words he would reject were the dictionary other than Johnson's; and doing this with his peculiar sense of the world ever in view, in search of an instrument for the adequate expression of that, he begets a vocabulary faithful to the coloring of his own spirit, and in the strictest sense original.
Page 176 - The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America; or, Several Poems, compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight...
Page 10 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world: Else none at all in aught proves excellent.
Page 8 - When popular discontent and passion are stimulated by the arts of designing partisans to a pitch perilously near to class hatred or sectional anger, I would have our universities and colleges sound the alarm in the name of American brotherhood and fraternal dependence. When the attempt is made to delude the people into the belief that their suffrages can change the operation of natural laws, I would have our universities and colleges proclaim that those laws are inexorable and far removed from political...
Page 163 - Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.