The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence, Devoted to the Individual Interest of the Public in the Purchase, Exchange, Or Sale of Books, Old, Fine, Rare, Scarce and Out-of-the-way, Both American and Foreign, Volumen6Richard Halkett Bookmart Publishing Company, 1889 |
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... copy of an early edition which contains a print- er's blunder at a specified page is pure and priceless , but that without the misprint it is comparatively worthless and may go for an old song . That is about the measure of the ca ...
... copy of an early edition which contains a print- er's blunder at a specified page is pure and priceless , but that without the misprint it is comparatively worthless and may go for an old song . That is about the measure of the ca ...
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... copy beside me ) ; Clough's ' Bothie of Toper na Fuosich ' ( 1848 ) , which in the col- lected poems has been rechristened the ' Bothie of Tober na Vuolich have all become rare and compara- tively dear . But it may be laid down as a ...
... copy beside me ) ; Clough's ' Bothie of Toper na Fuosich ' ( 1848 ) , which in the col- lected poems has been rechristened the ' Bothie of Tober na Vuolich have all become rare and compara- tively dear . But it may be laid down as a ...
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... copy I am using they are inserted at the end of the volume , and add vastly to its piquancy . I venture to print one of these racy reminiscences in the Dean's own words . In the manse of Loudon the minister , Mr. Lawrie - on whose ...
... copy I am using they are inserted at the end of the volume , and add vastly to its piquancy . I venture to print one of these racy reminiscences in the Dean's own words . In the manse of Loudon the minister , Mr. Lawrie - on whose ...
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... copy of the Quarterly is ' going ' ? The answer to this ques- Review which Lockhart sent to his tion involves a good many bib- old crony Lord Robertson ( commonly liographical considerations , which known as ' Peter ' ) , when his Lord ...
... copy of the Quarterly is ' going ' ? The answer to this ques- Review which Lockhart sent to his tion involves a good many bib- old crony Lord Robertson ( commonly liographical considerations , which known as ' Peter ' ) , when his Lord ...
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... copies struck off in the cheapest manner , ' or such of them as remain , have now mainly drifted into the great libraries , and are worth 2 " much more than their weight in gold -excluding altogether from the cal- culation that unique copy ...
... copies struck off in the cheapest manner , ' or such of them as remain , have now mainly drifted into the great libraries , and are worth 2 " much more than their weight in gold -excluding altogether from the cal- culation that unique copy ...
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Página 479 - of the closest, and, considering the change of subject, one of the most curious echoes of one poet by another, is the following. Eve, in 'Paradise Lost,' addressing Adam, says:— With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change. Wesley, hymn 214.
Página 647 - the Throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous Eyes, And hate for Arts which caus'd himself to rise, Damn with faint Praise, assent with civil Leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound,
Página 647 - caus'd himself to rise, Damn with faint Praise, assent with civil Leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint
Página 647 - and hesitate Dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend; A timorous Foe, and a suspicious Friend ? Fearing ev'n Fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd; Who, when two Wits on Rival Themes contest. Approves of each, but likes the worst the best; Like Cato gives his little Senate Laws, And sits attentive to his own Applause;
Página 78 - o'clock I walk out into a common that lies hard by the house, where a great many young wenches keep sheep and cows, and sit in the shade singing of ballads. I go to them and compare their voices and beauties to some ancient shepherdesses that 1 have read of, and
Página 7 - The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost idea with Hebraism is conduct and obedience. Nothing can do away with this ineffaceable difference. The Greek quarrel with the body and its desires is, that they hinder right thinking; the Hebrew quarrel with
Página 647 - ev'n Fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd; Who, when two Wits on Rival Themes contest. Approves of each, but likes the worst the best; Like Cato gives his little Senate Laws, And sits attentive to his own Applause; Whilst Wits and Templars every Sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish Face of Praise: Who
Página 100 - of death upon the guilty ship as it labours amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, and, cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves,
Página 36 - A year or two later appeared an English version, 'The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus:' a continuation appeared in 1594. entitled' The Second Report of Dr. John Faustus, containing his appearances, and the deeds of Wagner,
Página 83 - Spare me the whispering, crowded room, The friends who come, and gape, and go, All this was he spared, but he had not that last view of nature for which he asked— Let me be, While all around in silence lies. Moved to the window near, and see Once more before my dying eyes