The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Ausgaben 1-5Book Lover, 1900 |
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... collection of American - Indian his- tories in the country , and James W. Ellsworth has gone prodigiously into incunabula . William Henry Smith dotes upon political history , while H. J. Furber , Jr. , is equally interested in the fusty ...
... collection of American - Indian his- tories in the country , and James W. Ellsworth has gone prodigiously into incunabula . William Henry Smith dotes upon political history , while H. J. Furber , Jr. , is equally interested in the fusty ...
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... collection of cracked vases wash- bowls , teacups , and other things , each of which had a picture of " the Immortal Corsican " upon it . " Inscrutable Providence ! " thought I. " Here in this nineteenth century lives and moves and has ...
... collection of cracked vases wash- bowls , teacups , and other things , each of which had a picture of " the Immortal Corsican " upon it . " Inscrutable Providence ! " thought I. " Here in this nineteenth century lives and moves and has ...
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... collection fell but one volume short of completeness , and that volume was the impos- sible the first Shakespeare . For that , an edition . of Shakespeare's plays had been published before any of those yet extant seemed probable to Pro ...
... collection fell but one volume short of completeness , and that volume was the impos- sible the first Shakespeare . For that , an edition . of Shakespeare's plays had been published before any of those yet extant seemed probable to Pro ...
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... collection , almost as necessary to the collector as would be a long purse , is knowledge of editions and dates . The more bibliographical knowledge one possesses , the more chances one has of pick- ing up the great prizes . The second ...
... collection , almost as necessary to the collector as would be a long purse , is knowledge of editions and dates . The more bibliographical knowledge one possesses , the more chances one has of pick- ing up the great prizes . The second ...
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... collection of Americana ; Slason Thompson , the au- thor , playwright and general all - round athlete . with the editorial pen ; and Frank M. Morris were also members of the set . Then there was Melville E. Stone , whom Field ...
... collection of Americana ; Slason Thompson , the au- thor , playwright and general all - round athlete . with the editorial pen ; and Frank M. Morris were also members of the set . Then there was Melville E. Stone , whom Field ...
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American Andrew Lang auction Balzac beautiful Bible binding bookseller bound British Museum brought Browning burning burnt called catalogue Caxton's century Charles Charles Dickens Charles Lamb collection collector copy death delightful Dickens E. D. French edition England English essays fact famous folio French Friedrich Nietzsche friends genius George George Eliot German Grayle Guddle Gutenberg Bible hand Henry illustrated interest Irving Browne John Keats King known lady letters Library literary literature lived London look Lowell manuscript mind morocco never Nietzsche Nietzsche's novel novelist original paper Paris perhaps play poems poet poetry portrait present printed published rare reader Resold Scott Shakespeare Sold by Sotheby Sotheby story style Thackeray things thought tion vellum verses volumes William William Loring words write written wrote Wynkyn de Worde York
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Seite 16 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Seite 191 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Seite 451 - ... noise Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say 'The winds are now devising work for me!
Seite 247 - The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf whereinto England is like to be swallowed by another French marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banes by letting her Majestie see the sin and punishment thereof (1579).
Seite 67 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Seite 84 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Seite 380 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Seite 192 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 44 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who, on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water...
Seite 189 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.