A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences Concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable Books |
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... original , the latter in small . Of five different copies , known to and described by Heinekin , the one in the Imperial Library at Vienna he considered as matchless , and I believe , notwithstanding other copies have been since ...
... original , the latter in small . Of five different copies , known to and described by Heinekin , the one in the Imperial Library at Vienna he considered as matchless , and I believe , notwithstanding other copies have been since ...
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... original inventor and artist , who replaced to those who had been deprived of it , that ornament of the face - the Nose . " I have too high an opinion of the genius of the late MR . HUNTER , to suppose that he was indebted to Talia ...
... original inventor and artist , who replaced to those who had been deprived of it , that ornament of the face - the Nose . " I have too high an opinion of the genius of the late MR . HUNTER , to suppose that he was indebted to Talia ...
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... original from the reprint , p . 607 should have eight paragraphs — in the reprint there are only seven , which are printed with a larger type . The original ends at p . 619 , with a wood - cut , and a blank page after - the reprint ends ...
... original from the reprint , p . 607 should have eight paragraphs — in the reprint there are only seven , which are printed with a larger type . The original ends at p . 619 , with a wood - cut , and a blank page after - the reprint ends ...
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... original copy of the first edition , in a genuine state 41 0 0 121 16 0 The condition of so rare a Book as the first edition of Shakspeare , is a matter of no little importance to the lover of fine - conditioned and really important ...
... original copy of the first edition , in a genuine state 41 0 0 121 16 0 The condition of so rare a Book as the first edition of Shakspeare , is a matter of no little importance to the lover of fine - conditioned and really important ...
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... original folio and quarto Editions as my ground - work , and had re - arranged and revised it under the following heads , -Section 1 , Characters of His- torical Persons . Section 2 , Index of Manners , Pas- sions , and their external ...
... original folio and quarto Editions as my ground - work , and had re - arranged and revised it under the following heads , -Section 1 , Characters of His- torical Persons . Section 2 , Index of Manners , Pas- sions , and their external ...
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Page 82 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 92 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 65 - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Page 33 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 29 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 71 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Page 70 - They are full of spirit and poetry; as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter: they were written at the university when he was about twenty-three years old, and in queen Elizabeth's time.