A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books: A Plea for BibliomaniaPrivately Printed, 1892 - 493 páginas |
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A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania Daniel M. Tredwell Vista completa - 1892 |
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Página 232 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow...
Página 253 - O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner ! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort...
Página 421 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 14 - Lord only knows," he ejaculated, with a deep sigh and lifted-up hands, " Lord only knows what would be its ransom ; and yet it was originally secured, by skill and research, for the easy equivalent of twopence sterling.f Happy, thrice happy Snuffy Davie ! and blessed were the times when thy industry could be so rewarded ! "Even I, sir...
Página 378 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Página 421 - Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock of the whole of that brilliant society which has owed to him the greater part of its fame. He was always laying himself at the feet of some eminent man, and begging to be spit upon and trampled upon. He was always earning some ridiculous nickname, and then " binding it as a crown unto him...
Página 114 - Mr. Betterton (although a superlative good actor) labored under ill figure, being clumsily made, having a great head, a short thick neck, stooped in the shoulders, and had fat short arms, which he rarely lifted higher than his stomach. His left hand frequently lodged in his breast, between his coat and waistcoat, while, with his right he prepared his speech.
Página 51 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Página 308 - What a master of composition Fielding was ! Upon my word, I think the Oedipus Tyrannus, the Alchemist, and Tom Jones the three most perfect plots ever planned. And how charming, how wholesome, Fielding always is ! To take him up after Richardson, is like emerging from a sick room heated by stoves, into an open lawn, on a breezy day in May.
Página 378 - My thoughts are with the Dead, with them I live in long -past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind. My hopes are with the Dead, anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on • Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I 'trust, That will not perish in the dust.