Bibliomania: Or Book Madness ; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts ; Illustrated with Cuts, Volume 1 |
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... tion of this work , a very worthy and shrewd Bib- liomaniac , accidentally meeting me , ex- claimed that the book would do , but that there was not gall enough in it . ' As he was himself a Book - Auction - loving Bib- LIB UNI - T ...
... tion of this work , a very worthy and shrewd Bib- liomaniac , accidentally meeting me , ex- claimed that the book would do , but that there was not gall enough in it . ' As he was himself a Book - Auction - loving Bib- LIB UNI - T ...
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... tion , to gratify him and similar Collectors by writing PART III . of the present im- pression : the motto of which may probably meet their approbation . It will be evident , on a slight inspec- tion of the present edition , that it is ...
... tion , to gratify him and similar Collectors by writing PART III . of the present im- pression : the motto of which may probably meet their approbation . It will be evident , on a slight inspec- tion of the present edition , that it is ...
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... tion , marked his numerous writings . No garden- flower grew wild ' in the narrow field of his imagin- ation ; and although the words decency and chas- tity were continually dropping from his lips , I suspect that the reverse of these ...
... tion , marked his numerous writings . No garden- flower grew wild ' in the narrow field of his imagin- ation ; and although the words decency and chas- tity were continually dropping from his lips , I suspect that the reverse of these ...
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... tion that France , nor other realms , may well forbear ; and as for saltpetre , there is sufficient made in England to furnish our turn for the wars . Also we have hot fountains or baths , which you nor no other realms christen- ed have ...
... tion that France , nor other realms , may well forbear ; and as for saltpetre , there is sufficient made in England to furnish our turn for the wars . Also we have hot fountains or baths , which you nor no other realms christen- ed have ...
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... tion of a spring morning , in the opening of Alain Chartier's Livre des qua- tre dames ; and , with the exception of the violets , such description conveyed a pretty accurate idea of the scenery which presented itself , from the ca ...
... tion of a spring morning , in the opening of Alain Chartier's Livre des qua- tre dames ; and , with the exception of the violets , such description conveyed a pretty accurate idea of the scenery which presented itself , from the ca ...
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Page 588 - And pillow to the head of age. To thee, dear school-boy, whom my lay Has cheated of thy hour of play, Light task, and merry holiday ! To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light ! THE LADY OF THE LAKE A POEM.
Page 138 - 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 450 - 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 358 - ... baked. His table cost him not much, though it was good to eat at. His sports supplied all but beef and mutton ; except on Fridays, when he had the best of fish. He never wanted a London pudding ; and he always sang it in with,
Page 391 - 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...
Page 547 - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page 449 - My mind reproached me how far short I came of what your great friendship and delicate pen would partially describe me. You ask my consent to publish it : to what straits doth this reduce me ? I look back, indeed, to those evenings I have usefully and pleasantly spent with Mr.
Page 546 - The Second part of Henrie the fourth, continuing to his death, and coronation of Henrie the fift. With the humours of Sir John Falstaffe, and swaggering Pistoll. As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William Shakespeare.
Page 448 - And sure if aught below the seats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine ; A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
Page 391 - The rest of the trade are content to take their refuse, with which, and the fresh scum of the press, they furnish one side of a shop, which serves for the sign of a bookseller, rather than a real one...