Bibliomania, Or, Book Madness ; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts ; Illustrated with Cuts, Volume 1 |
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... labors ; and I marvel much how mortals can spend their time in cavilling at each other - in murdering , with their pens as well as their swords , all that is excellent and admirable in human nature - instead of curbing their passions ...
... labors ; and I marvel much how mortals can spend their time in cavilling at each other - in murdering , with their pens as well as their swords , all that is excellent and admirable in human nature - instead of curbing their passions ...
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... labors with doubt , and an avowal of their ignorance ; when I see how carefully and reverently they have pushed forward their most successful inquiries ; when I see the great Newton pausing and perplexed in the vast world of planets ...
... labors with doubt , and an avowal of their ignorance ; when I see how carefully and reverently they have pushed forward their most successful inquiries ; when I see the great Newton pausing and perplexed in the vast world of planets ...
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... labors of this illustrious man in the 7th volume of Niceron's Me- moires des Hommes Illustres . + See the note at p . 37 , ante . It is a pity ' , says Morhof , that the Dutch had such little curiosity about the literary history of ...
... labors of this illustrious man in the 7th volume of Niceron's Me- moires des Hommes Illustres . + See the note at p . 37 , ante . It is a pity ' , says Morhof , that the Dutch had such little curiosity about the literary history of ...
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... labors of those gentlemen who preside over the BRITISH MUSEUM abundantly prove our present industry . Thus speaks Senebier : Il sembleroit d ' abord étonnant qu'on ait tant tardé à composer le Catalogue des Manu- scrits de la ...
... labors of those gentlemen who preside over the BRITISH MUSEUM abundantly prove our present industry . Thus speaks Senebier : Il sembleroit d ' abord étonnant qu'on ait tant tardé à composer le Catalogue des Manu- scrits de la ...
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... labors it is to be regretted that This work , in four books , was published at Lyons , 1635 , 4to . If it be not quite Much ado about nothing ' - it exhibits , at least , a great waste of ink and paper . Morhof seems to seize with ...
... labors it is to be regretted that This work , in four books , was published at Lyons , 1635 , 4to . If it be not quite Much ado about nothing ' - it exhibits , at least , a great waste of ink and paper . Morhof seems to seize with ...
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Page 701 - A Parallel in the manner of Plutarch, between a most celebrated man of Florence, and one, scarce ever heard of, in England...
Page 479 - Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung ! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain.
Page 158 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
Page 124 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead...
Page 454 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.
Page 294 - I know a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
Page 452 - tis a soul like thine : A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
Page 561 - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page 694 - Lichfield at a very early hour, without mentioning to any of the family whither he was going. The day passed without the return of the illustrious guest, and the party began to be very uneasy on his account, when, just before the supper-hour, the door opened, and the Doctor stalked into the room.
Page 395 - Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.